These visual aids help the reader look at the poem in a far more intimate, compassionate way. The "thick green light", the "white eyes", and the "haunting flares", are just some of the key words that Owen uses to enable him to create these powerful images and allow the reader to experience a lot more of what Owen was feeling at the time. Conflictingly, Anthem for Doomed Youth is much less of a visual poem and this is all to do with Owen's subtle use of loud words, full of noise and bulk such as "monstrous anger" or "stuttering rifles rapid rattle." Although this creates less imagery in the poem, we can still visualise the scenes captured in the poem by imagining the sounds Owen describes at great length ("The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells and bugles calling them from sad shires"). .
This variation in tempo is also apparent in Anthem for Doomed Youth, although to a lesser degree as this poem is in the form of a sonnet with a rhyming pattern of ABABCDCDEFFEGG. . It has fourteen lines, divided up into two movements. An alternate line rhyme scheme is used in the octet. This changes to a more unusual sextet in the final movement. The first and fourth lines rhyme, as do the second and third, and it ends on a couplet. This disjointed feel to the sextet represents the feelings of unpredictability that Owen felt occurred during the war. There are long pauses after the rhetorical questions ("what passing bells?") which adds atmosphere and makes the reader think more about the point Owen is making. Owen has adeptly transformed this poem into a sonnet to ironically convey his cynical views towards the war as a sonnet is typically used to express idealistic feelings of love and passion. Owen has contradictingly used his sonnet to provoke the intense feelings of sadness and injustice that he felt.
