Anthem For Doomed Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBBB CBBDBB| 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 for them no prayers nor bells | B |
| Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs | B |
| The shrill demented choirs of wailing shells | B |
| And bugles calling for them from sad shires | B |
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| What candles may be held to speed them all | C |
| Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes | B |
| Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes | B |
| The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall | D |
| Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds | B |
| And each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds | B |
Wilfred Owen
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