The Tiger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEF GGHH IIJJ KLCC AABC| Tiger tiger burning bright | A |
| In the forests of the night | A |
| What immortal hand or eye | B |
| Could frame thy fearful symmetry | C |
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| In what distant deeps or skies | D |
| Burnt the fire of thine eyes | D |
| On what wings dare he aspire | E |
| What the hand dare seize the fire | F |
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| And what shoulder and what art | G |
| Could twist the sinews of thy heart | G |
| And when thy heart began to beat | H |
| What dread hand and what dread feet | H |
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| What the hammer what the chain | I |
| In what furnace was thy brain | I |
| What the anvil what dread grasp | J |
| Dare its deadly terrors clasp | J |
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| When the stars threw down their spears | K |
| And watered heaven with their tears | L |
| Did He smile His work to see | C |
| Did He who made the lamb make thee | C |
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| Tiger tiger burning bright | A |
| In the forests of the night | A |
| What immortal hand or eye | B |
| Dare frame thy fearful symmetry | C |
William Blake
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