Dulce Et Decorum Est is a poem written by Wilfred Owen following his own experience in the trenches during the Great War. His poem is based on the death of a fellow solider and how he was haunted by the brutality of war. The rhyme scheme to this poem is chaotic. First we have an octave, followed by a set-set, then a couplet and finally a 12 line stanza. Stanza one starts with the conventional ABABCDCD pattern in, however in the second stanza the rhyme scheme becomes abrupt. The stanza breaks are irregular, this isn’t an accident, Owen has done this because the poem is intended to make us feel chaotic just like the scene he is describing. In the first stanza Owen uses simile upon simile to describe how physically and mentally deformed
