The poem "Bombed Last Night" is actually a song from the
            play "Oh! What a Lovely War!" by Charles Chilton.  Song lyrics are quite comparable to
            poems, so the same rules and observations
            generally apply.
Your question asks for commentary
            regarding capitalization, stanzas, and verses.  In the literary world we call those
            things the "conventions" of poetry (or really of any written work).  For example, the
            conventions of writing a book title are to capitalize the first, last, and all important
            words and then either underline it or put it in italics.  The conventions of writing
            dialogue are to use quotation marks in certain ways.  The conventions of poetry are
            somewhat dependent on the poem.
In this poem, "Gassed Last
            Night," the conventions are quite, well, conventional.  Each line begins with a capital
            letter, each line ends with a piece of punctuation, and each sentence ends with a
            period. Stanzas two and four are the chorus (this is a song, but poems can have
            choruses, as well).  Stanzas one and three are the two verses of the song/poem.  The
            rhyme scheme is not particularly complex, as the verses are written in simple AABB
            form.  There is not a particularly even metrical pattern for the poem, though as a song
            it undoubtedly fits a musical rhythm. 
I've included the
            site for the lyrics, below.  From my slight research, I think the poem is actually
            entitled "Gassed Last Night"; however, I did not change your question to reflect that
            because I'm not certain. 
 
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