Describe traditional Chinese beliefs about education from village schools and traveling soldiers

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)