The Charge of the Light Brigade

“But I howl like a wolf at the moon”

Uncle Jerry identifies the dactylic metre of 'I howl like a wolf at the moon' and connects it to Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade, which uses the same rhythmic pattern to evoke galloping horses. He suggests that Taylor's dactylic line creates a similar sense of running headlong, in her case, into her 'disastrous life.'