The charge of the light brigade
- Created by: Abi16
- Created on: 12-02-17 17:47
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- The charge of the light brigade
- Form
- The regular rhythm creates a fast pace to imitate the energy of the battle.
- Rhyming couplets drive the poem forward. The lack of rhyme scheme hints the chaos of war.
- Structure
- Tells story in chronological order in first 3 stanzas but the battle is in the fourth and fifth.
- The final stanza summarises the heroism of the brigade.
- Repetition
- "six hundred" at end of stanzas shows idea of the amount of soldiers
- "Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them"
- "six hundred" at end of stanzas shows idea of the amount of soldiers
- Heroic language
- Adverbs like "boldly" and verbs like "charging" empathise the men's bravery.
- Respectful language "All the world wonder'd" shows how soldiers should be remembered.
- violent langage
- Uses powerful verbs and adjectives to give a sense of violence.
- "shot and shell", "valley of death", "jaws of death", "mouth of hell", "volley'd and thunder'd"
- Uses powerful verbs and adjectives to give a sense of violence.
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