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The Hypnotic Meter Of "The Charge Of The Light Brigade", Michael Rifenburg
The Hypnotic Meter Of "The Charge Of The Light Brigade", Michael Rifenburg
The Corinthian
Lord Alfred Tennyson, composer of beautifully melodic verse during the Victorian Age, used meter to create for the reader a musical milieu. In his 1854 poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade," Tennyson uses dactylic meter (stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables) to slip the reader into a hypnotic state and to convey to the reader the futility of the charge.