The Tyger Poem Analysis Essay

From rereading this poem “The Tyger” by William Blake multiple times. I can see that this poem is all about him asking this majestic, beast which resembles a tiger, many different questions about it. To start off, this poem is using four quatrains which contains two rhyming couplets in each. It also contains seven syllables in each line besides for this phase “Could frame thy fearful, symmetry” which contains eight syllables in it. Here the rhyming couplets are used as a sense of repetition, which reinforce the idea of this strong, majestic beast. As we proceed to the first quatrains. Blake starts the poem off, by incorporating two alliterations right in the beginning line of this poem when he wrote, “Tyger Tyger, burning bright”. Here Blake is using the first alliteration to draw the reader’s attention to an idea or an image which in this case is the tiger. Then he follows it up with another alliteration, this time using it to describe how majestic, and strong this beast really is. In addition to this, Blake paints a picture of this majestic beast when he gives us the setting which is a …show more content…
The use of this alliteration “distant deeps” might have been intended to get reader’s attention to an idea that the person who created this beast, might not be from the plant that Blake is on at this moment. Moving on to the next line of this poem. Blake uses an assonance here when he wrote, “Burnt the fire of thine eyes?” Here, you can definitely pick out the “I” endings in this phase when u read the words fire, thine, and eyes. In the last two lines of this poem, I think that Blake is asking the tiger a question about who would ever think of making a beast like this when he wrote, “What the hand, dare seize the fire?” Blake at that moment, is wondering who is crazy enough to attempt to create such a beast if he had to touch such a hot fire to do