Iron Maiden v. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

For those of you who still need to do the "Charge of the Light Brigade" assignment, here is the gist.

"The Trooper"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"

In class, we compared both poems and talked about the rhyme scheme, stanza length, and meter.

1. Choose one stanza from "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and scan it (mark stressed and unstressed syllables).

2. Mark the rhyme scheme.

3. Explain one way that the rhyme scheme, meter, or line/stanza length contributes to the poem's topic, mood, or theme.
(eg. the first two lines of stanza 1 sound like a horse galloping, which is crucial to the topic)