Language and Structure in Exposure - Wilfred Owen
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- Language and Structure.
- Structure
- The poem is made up of a series of eight stanzas with five lines.
- It is also part of the more general disruption of the rhythmic structure which uses six beats as its basis
- The first four lines of each stanza follow the rhyming pattern of abba.
- Emphasises the repetitiveness of trench life.
- The rhymes used by Owen do not quite rhyme.
- This is a technique called half rhyme.
- E.G. knive us & nervous
- This is used to un-nerve the reader
- The poem is made up of a series of eight stanzas with five lines.
- Language
- Owen's language contrasts the brutalities of war.
- Uses assonance.
- Uses alliteration.
- A particularly effective example of alliteration comes in the fourth stanza with the repetition of the letters 's', 'f' and 'w':
- Uses assonance.
- The repeated use of the ‘s’ sound reminds the reader of the bullets
- Owen uses the repeated ‘f’s on the third line and ‘w’s of the fourth line to form intricate word patterns.
- A particularly effective example of alliteration comes in the fourth stanza with the repetition of the letters 's', 'f' and 'w':
- Structure
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