We'll put the stressed syllables in bold: We call that the "stress." In general, there are two main stresses in each line of "The Charge of the Light Brigade." Here, we'll show you how that works again, using part of section 2. The first thing we'll look for in each line is which syllables are emphasized. This part of the poem's form is definitely less complicated, once you get the hang of it. OK, we'll leave off our discussion of rhyme at this point, but poke around a little in the other sections if you feel like it. We call three rhyming lines in a row a "triplet." The last thing to check out here, and maybe the most noticeable part of the whole section, is the group of three rhyming lines in the middle: reply, why, die. That's what we call a near rhyme or slant rhyme, and they're easy to find in this poem. See how that sort of rhymes with the last line: blundered, hundred? The words sound kind of alike, but they also stick in your mouth a little. Then we have a line that doesn't rhyme with anything else: knew. We start out with two lines in a row that rhyme: Brigade, dismayed. See, we told you there was a lot going on here. (D) Into the valley of Death (E) Rode the six hundred. (C) Theirs not to make reply, (D) Theirs not to reason why, (D) Theirs but to do and die. "Forward, the Light Brigade!" (A) Was there a man dismayed? (A) Not though the soldier knew (B) Someone had blundered. Let's look at Stanza 2, where there's a lot of interesting rhyming going on: We'll put rhyming words in bold, and also tag each sound at the end of a line with a letter, so you can see which ones match up. The easiest way to describe this is just to show you. Sometimes a bunch of lines in a row will have rhyming words at the end, sometimes it will be every other line, sometimes two words will almost rhyme but not quite (we call that near rhyme or slant rhyme). These rhymes can happen in all kinds of ways. The rhymes in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" aren't predictable, but they're still an important part of the way the poem is put together. Some poems have very regular rhyme patterns, with the same sounds repeating every line or every other line. Let's tackle the way this poem rhymes first, because it's kind of interesting and unusual.
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