william blakes "tyger" compared and contrasted to "the lamb"

Both of the poems The Lamb and The Tyger are from a collection called Songs of Innocence and where intended to be read alongside one another.

What is immediately obvious to me in Blake's The Tyger is the powerful rhythm the poet has created coupled with the apparent simplicity but great power of the language. Blake does this by using repetition, stress and rhythm, reinforcing this further by punctuation and alliteration, "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright". The strong rhyme adds yet further to the power of the lines and the images they create. The power which comes from this apparent simplicity is, perhaps, what makes the poem so memorable. It would be an easy
poem to learn by heart.

The poem maintains a rhythm of four beats to a line throughout and a consistent "aabb..." rhyming pattern, as well as frequent examples of alliteration and assonance. The tiger, itself, is dangerous but beautiful - "burning bright". The poem is full of questions, but the twomain questions being asked are...