Tiger--tiger! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD| What of the hunting hunter bold | A |
| Brother the watch was long and cold | A |
| What of the quarry ye went to kill | B |
| Brother he crops in the jungle still | B |
| Where is the power that made your pride | C |
| Brother it ebbs from my flank and side | C |
| Where is the haste that ye hurry by | D |
| Brother I go to my lair to die | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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Arnold Tyldsley: Kipling describes the natural demise of a hunter supreme by an imagined human dialogue in which the questioner mockingly refers to the animals waning powers and inevitable inability to sustain its own existence.
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