Please Hurry!!
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
—“The Charge of the Light Brigade,”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Half a league” is a distance of about 1.5 miles. What does the repetition of this phrase show?
A. The men are riding horses.
B. The soldiers are moving forward steadily.
C. The poem has no rhyme structure.
D. The men are charging into cannon fire.