Poetry Response

In the poem, The Tyger, the speaker makes effective use of the literary terms rhyme, rhythm and meter. Rhyme is the repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words. The type of rhyme used is end rhyme because it occurs at the ends of lines. Rhythm in poetry means the flow of sound produced by language. Throughout this poem, one can sense something repeating in the rhythm. This pattern of rhythm in a poem is called meter. Meter is a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm. Meter gives form to what we hear in a poem by telling us what to expect the rhythm to do from line to line. This rhythm gives the poem a musical quality and it helps to convey the meaning.
The speaker asks a basic question in this poem. “What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?” In this context, symmetry means “well-proportioned form.” Basically, the speaker is wonderi...