![]() This reminds us of the towns left grieving for the men who will never come home. The octet culminates in a reference to the “bugles calling for them from sad shires”. An onslaught of sensual imagery describes and creates the harsh sounds which would have surrounded the men as they fought and died. ![]() The octet introduces the reader to the brutal environment of the trenches. The structure of the sestet mirrors that of the octet in that both stanzas open with a rhetorical question which is then answered by the speaker in the following lines. The poem is structured as an octet and a sestet. The sonnet form - often used to praise or elevate - seems ironic in its use here as the poem is a lament for the brutal deaths of young innocent men. sestet structure of the Italian Petrarchan sonnet, but is loosely based on the rhyme scheme of the English Shakespearean sonnet. ![]()
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