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The Charge of the Light Brigade

This is The Charge of the Light Brigade written by Lord Alfred Tennyson. The poem tells the story of a brigade that walks into the valley of death. The poem has six stanzas of differing lengths. The rhyme scheme is irregular. It doesn’t have a pattern. The meter is dactylic, meaning that one stressed syllable is succeeded by two unstressed syllables. This gives the sense of horses galloping or thundering like drums. /

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Theirs not to make reply There are some alliterations in the text. We understand alliteration as the repetition of a sound in a sentence that reminds us to something. For example in the line 22 we find the sound /s/ that remind us a fire shooting. We can also find parallelism that is a repetition of part of a sentence or the sentence and anaphora that is the repetition of the first word in a sentence like in line 20 when it is said “Cannon to right of them…”. We can also find an allusion to the Bible when the poet speaks about the valley of Death. In the bible the speaker does not fear death and the because he trust in god. The soldiers in the poem cannot give their opinion and they just follow orders. The soldiers have just one purpose, fight. The soldiers know that they are going to die. With the religious allusion we can know that the intention of the poet is encourage the soldiers to die for their country and to go to war in contrast to what Wilfred Owen wants to transmit with his poem Dulce et Decorum, in which he criticizes the way the countries send teenagers to fight their wars, giving them fakes expectations....