Read the excerpt from "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon behind them

Volley'd and thunder'd;

Storm'd at with shot and shell,

While horse and hero fell,

They that had fought so well

Came thro' the jaws of Death,

Back from the mouth of Hell,

All that was left of them,

Left of six hundred.

Identify the pair of stressed syllables from the excerpt.

right, them

to, of

that, fought

back, mouth

its back, mouth

The pairs of stressed syllables from the excerpt are:

right, them

back, mouth

Explanation:

In both of these examples the syllables are stressed and the both words of the pair fall in the meter where there is stress on the line.

This can be seen as there is a consistent meter in the poem where the first syllable or the first word of the line is in stress and then it alternates until the line where back and mouth are the stressed syllables.

In terms of those words, it is the fact that ' from the' can be spoken out unstressed in one go that makes them a stressed pair.