1. Dulce et Decorum Est by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
... 's sentiment. "But someone still was yelling out and stumbling" The short "o" in out accompany the "e" in yelling to accompany the verb to compliment and define the verb before it. As well as the short "o," there is also the short "u" in stumbling, which also works to create a more realistic tone. Look at ... ;Drunk with fatigue" also is to illustrate the life of a soldier. Through the use of the repeated assonance in the short "u" and the short "a," it's a metaphor for illustrating the exhaustion, yet it also plays on the irony of the poem because in all of the exhaustion and the pain, t...
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