Alliteration plays a big part in the first stanza to establish much of the desired mood. The whole first line of the poem has an almost unholy ritualistic feel to it, shouting the same word twice to start a poem gives it a chant-like feel. The harsh clanging of the syllables creates the aura of drums beating. The rhymes he uses here continue to establish this tone. Rhyming eye with symmetry is harsh sounding and ugly.. The connection

The words he chooses in the opening stanza work to achieve his desired meaning in much the same way as the way they sound. The choice of the words burning and bright describe the tiger as unnatural and almost unholy amidst the dark forest. In the next line he uses the words hand and eye as the creator's tools in creating the tiger's image. The hand stands for the apparatus that did the work, while the eye stands for the foresight that was used. The word symmetry is used to describe something in perfect balance or harmony, and by describing the tiger as having fearful symmetry means that the tiger has every quality to instill fear and terror perfectly aligned. Combined these two lines ask how could a godlike figure with the power of foresight create a being perfect for terror and evil?

From the harsh sounding rhyme scheme, to the chant-like alliteration, and finally the carefully constructed dicti

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Approximate Word count = 613
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)