![]() ![]() ![]() The following lines are closer to a Shakespearean sonnet in that they follow an ABAB rhyme scheme and conclude with a couplet. This first half of the poem follows the rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet, ABBAABBA. ‘The Next War’ by Wilfred Owen is a fourteen-line sonnet that is separated into one set of eight lines, known as an octet, and one set of six, known as a sestet. The last lines allude to the endless nature of war and the “flags” that soldiers fight for and against. He was their fellow comrade more than anything else. There, the speaker describes how death is not the true enemy that the soldiers face on the battlefield. Death is described with poignant and disturbing imagery that leads the reader into the second half of the poem. They have lived around him for so long that his presence has lost its impact. The unnamed speaker in this piece describes in the first lines of the poem that he and his comrades have become “friendly” with death. ‘ The Next War’ by Wilfred Owen is a dark and cynical poem about the horrors of war, the loss of life, and war’s ineffectiveness. ![]()
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