Charge of the Light Brigade

• "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do or die" - Tennyson
• "Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred." - Tennyson
• "Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them," - Tennyson
• 6 stanzas
• Tennyson uses alliteration throughout the poem.
• Tennyson uses repetition with "valley of death".
• Refrains repeating the words "six hundred" in reference to the 600 british soldiers on horseback which were in the light brigade
• "Half a league, half a league,

  Half a league onward,"
• It has exactly 55 lines
• "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!"
• Cannon to the right of them,

  Cannon to the left of them,

  Cannon in front of them
• Then they rode back, bit not

  Not the six hundred.
• Honour the Light Brigade,

  Noble six hundred!
• Tennyson used dactylic dimeter to show a sence of charging on
• It didn't take too long to write it as he needed to publish it.
• He was the Poet Laureate from 1850 to his death in 1892.
• ‘Their’s not to reason why,

  Their’s but to do and die’ (L14-15)
• ‘Into the jaws of death…

  Rode the six hundred’ (L24-5)
• ‘When can their glory fade’? (L50)