The Charge Of The Light Brigade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCD EEGBHHHCD IIIBJJCJD KKKLBMMNMBBB IIIBJJJCJIB BBBBBB| Half a league half a league | A |
| Half a league onward | B |
| All in the valley of Death | C |
| Rode the six hundred | D |
| Forward the Light Brigade | E |
| Charge for the guns he said | F |
| Into the valley of Death | C |
| Rode the six hundred | D |
| - | |
| Forward the Light Brigade | E |
| Was there a man dismayed | E |
| Not tho' the soldiers knew | G |
| Someone had blundered | B |
| Theirs was not to make reply | H |
| Theirs was not to reason why | H |
| Theirs was but to do and die | H |
| Into the valley of Death | C |
| Rode the six hundred | D |
| - | |
| Cannon to the right of them | I |
| Cannon to the left of them | I |
| Cannon in front of them | I |
| Volleyed and thunder'd | B |
| Storm'd at with shot and shell | J |
| Boldly they rode and well | J |
| Into the jaws of Death | C |
| Into the mouth of Hell | J |
| Rode the six hundred | D |
| - | |
| Flashed all their sabres bare | K |
| Flashed as they turned in air | K |
| Sab'ring the gunners there | K |
| Charging and army while | L |
| All the world wondered | B |
| Plunging in the battery smoke | M |
| Right through the line they broke | M |
| Cossack and Russian | N |
| Reeled from the sabre stroke | M |
| Shattered and sundered | B |
| Then they rode back but not | B |
| Not the six hundred | B |
| - | |
| Cannon to the right of them | I |
| Cannon to the left of them | I |
| Cannon in front of them | I |
| Volleyed and thundered | B |
| Stormed at with shot and shell | J |
| While horse and hero fell | J |
| They that fought so well | J |
| Came thro' the jaws of Death | C |
| Back from the mouth of Hell | J |
| All that was left of them | I |
| Left of the six hundred | B |
| - | |
| When can their glory fade | B |
| Oh the wild charge they made | B |
| All the world wondered | B |
| Honor the charge they made | B |
| Honor the Light Brigade | B |
| Noble Six Hundred | B |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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