Arms and the Boy The title alludes to the opening words of Virgil's Latin epic poem the "Aeneid": "Arma virumque cano" ("Of arms and the man I sing"). The poem is written in heroic couplets, in which successive pairs of lines have related ending sounds. In this instance, the final words do not rhyme; for example, "blade" and "blood" in the quotation. This is a scheme called half rhyme. Text of the Poem at Poetry Foundation Arms and the Boy "Arms and the Boy" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Like Owen's other famous poems, it deals with the atrocities of World War I;
The Devil and His Boy the purpose of killing Tom. Tom tries to gain employment, but is horrified by one of the jobs he manages to find, which is to cripple children to gain sympathy while begging. He's later befriended by the thief Moll Cutpurse, who gives him clothes and takes him to the theater, where he meets William Shakespeare. Tom ends up agreeing to perform in the play "The Devil and his Boy" for a foreign man named Dr. Mobius, but swiftly notices that something is very strange with Mobius and the other performers. All have a cross tattooed onto their arms and Mobius