soldier crawling on hands and knees through a trench under a cloud of poisonous gas with dead soldiers in the foreground and background

Dulce et Decorum Est

by Wilfred Owen

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Dulce et Decorum Est

The soldier in the second stanza does not literally drown, but the speaker says that he seems to be drowning. He does not get his gas mask on quickly enough and inhales some kind of poison gas which...

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Dulce et Decorum Est

The rhyme scheme of the second stanza in "Dulce et Decorum Est" is ABABCDCD. This pattern contributes to the poem's rhythmic structure, emphasizing the grim and chaotic experiences of soldiers in...

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