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What effect does the meter in ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"" have on the reader?.

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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.
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