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Why does Tennyson repeat the idea of "the six hundred" throughout "The Charge of the Light Brigade"? to show that most of the six hundred returned from battle to show the tremendous loss the army suffered that day to show that the enemy lost more soldiers in the battle to show how the soldiers suffered as they lost the fight

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It reinforces the idea of the large number of men involved and lost.

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