World War 1 Poems Phonology.

  Wilfred Owen   "Anthem for a Doomed Youth"

"No mockeries for them from prayers or bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires"

The rhytem of this poem is the rhytem of like a song or a speech. There is a rhyme pattern in this piece of text. 'Bells, Shells' the double ll sound relates them to eachother. The ll sound make a rhyme. Also in this piece of text it has choirs and shires in. the irs sound makes a rhyme.


Wilfred Owen   "Dulce et Decorum est"

"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! -- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fit the clumsy helmets just in time;"

This piece of text is obviously being shouted at to a group of people either young children or a group of males. The connotations of "GAS! GAS!" are portraying to us signs of danger and trouble. He is instructing them to put there gas marks on, you know he is instructing them to do this because of the use of exclamation marks.
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