Here, the speaker questions if any one of the doomed men sensed danger and felt fear after being commanded to charge. Because the guns of the opponents were mentioned in the previous lines, it is likely they are wielding more lethal weaponry. This may be because they are outnumbered are lighter armed. The "valley of Death" is mentioned again, intimating the men charging toward their opponents are being sent toward certain death. The "he" refers to the man leading the brigade, ordering the troops to charge toward the opposing militant force. These two lines suggest the men were riding straight toward Death. The six hundred refers to the number of men in the Calvary. The valley of Death is a dark image presented to the reader, a contrast to the sound of the first two lines in the poem. A league is a measure of distance, slightly more than 5.5 kilometers. The poem begins with what sounds like a march when read aloud, echoing the boost the Calvary may have been given at the time of the battle. An example of this can be easily seen (stressed syllables bolded) in the line "’Forward the Light Brigade!’" The poem’s meter is consistent throughout. Lines present a meter in which two unstressed syllables follow a stressed syllable. Though there are rhymed lines in the poem, it does not follow a consistent rhyme scheme. The poem is composed of six stanzas of varying length. The poem was written as a commemoration of a specific event in the 1854 Battle of Balaclava. Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote " The Charge of the Light Brigade" in 1854.
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