The Charge of the Light Brigade
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- Created on: 24-05-18 12:06
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- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Form
- Third person
- Regular relentless rhythm
- Rhyming couplets and triplets
- Broken and half rhymes
- Structure
- Stanzas 1-3: charge
- Chronological
- Stanza 4: battle
- Stanza 5: retreat
- Stanza 6: honour their memory
- Context
- Moved to write poem after reading report of disaster
- Reflects national mood
- Popular because of heroism and unflinching courage of men who simply obeyed orders
- Quotes
- "Into the valley of Death/Rode the six hundred"
- "'Forward, the Light Brigade!'/Was there a man dismay'd?/Not tho' the soldier knew/Some one had blunder'd"
- "Theirs not to make reply,/Theirs not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die"
- "Cannon to right of them/Cannon to left of them/Cannon in front of them"
- "Storm'd at with shot and shell/Boldly the rode and well"
- "All the world wonder'd"
- "Reeled from the sabre-stroke/Shatter'd and sunder'd"
- "When can their glory fade?"
- "Honour the charge they made!/Honour the Light Brigade"
- "Then they rode back, but not/Not the six hundred"
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