- Anthem for Doomed Youth YEAR 9 ENGLISH PLEASE HELP DUE TOMORROW!!! Explain how the poetic structure develops the sonnet’s tone. Cite evidence from the poem in your response.

Explanation:

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? a

-- Only the monstrous anger of the guns. b

Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle a

Can patter out their hasty orisons. b

No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; c

Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, -- d

The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; c

And bugles calling for them from sad shires. d

What candles may be held to speed them all? e

Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes f

Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. f

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; e

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, g

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds g

The rhyme-scheme of the poem is unusual. At first, it looks as if it will have a typical "Shakespearean" rhyme-scheme (ababa cdcd efef gg). However, in the third quatrain (the third grouping of four lines), Owen does something unusual and unexpected, using the kind of quatrain typical of a Petrarchan sonnet (the first eight lines of which rhyme as follows (abba abba).

Student Answers

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how is it divided 8 and 6 or 4 and 4 and 4?

It is hybrid sonnet i.e a mixture between a petrachan sonnet and a shakesperian sonnet.

It has the structure (an octave then a sestet) of a petrarchan sonnet but the rhyme scheme and rythm of a shakesperian one (abab cdcd efef gg) except for lines 13 and 14. Anthem for Doomed Youth's rhyme scheme is (abab cdcd effe gg)

hmm, sadly there is no dialogue. there is no place in the story where he is talking to anyone. it's more of just describing what he eats and where he sleeps. you have to become anne frank, give details of where you are, what other folks look like, how the environment is. have a little bit of dialogue tell of what people are specifically saying. anne frank talked about her entire household including the people, the objects, the lighting, the food they ate, and even the smell in the air. there has to be more to your diary entries, the whole story in its current state is only about peter van daan, the food, the sounds, and where he sleeps. also he seems to be writing only once a year yet more than that happened from day to day. for a friend, i can you write it out, if you want.

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