fire of (its) eyes" is such that it seems only possible that it emerged from such intense conditions.

There is also imagery throughout the poem linking to the creator who the speaker cannot imagine to be responsible for creating the tiger. The speaker wonders, incredulously, "What immortal hand or eye" can possibly have created something like this "burning bright" tiger. The hand of any such creator is referenced throughout the poem, and the personification in this instance allows the reader to appreciate how difficult it must have been for any creator to have handled the fire from which the tiger must have been formed. We can all remember or imagine what it feels like to be burned, and so when the speaker wonders, "What the hand, dare seize the fire?" we, the readers, can better understand why the speaker is so reluctant to believe that the tiger could have been created by any hand. Instead, as the speaker suggests, it seems more likely that the tiger must have been created in a furnace.

Poetic elements used in the poem "The Tyger" by English writer William Blake include:

Rhyme

In each stanza of this poem, the first two lines rhyme and the last two lines rhyme. The rhyme scheme in each stanza is AABB. Blake employs rhyme to give a musical quality to the poem. Rhyme also enables a reader to memorize a poem more easily.

Theme

The main theme of this poem is the magnificent creation that a tiger (tyger) is. William Blake wonders about the fact that the God who created the Lamb (Jesus Christ) was also the Creator of this formidable beast of the jungle. Blake sees great creative powers in this majestic animal.

Repetition

To give the poem more power and to emphasize the strength of the tiger, Blake repeats the words “what” and “dread.”

What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp,

Style

Blake employs a formal writing style in "The Tyger." The poem has a solid structure as opposed to a more freewheeling "free verse" poem. The poem consists of six stanzas of four lines each. The above-mentioned rhyme scheme is part of every stanza. Each line of the poem has four beats to it as well, which gives this poem a regular, consistent rhythm, which is also a poetic element.

In this poem, Blake uses imagery that describes the fearsomeness of the tiger, but also shows the creature's beauty. The fearsomeness of the tiger contrasts as well to the gentleness of the lamb.

A possible thesis could be (you will need to finesse this and make it your own): The imagery William Blake uses to describe the tiger emphasizes the speaker's questions about the paradox [contradictions] of God's nature: how could a God that created a creature as gentle as a lamb also create one as destructive and yet beautiful as a tiger?

Imagery that shows the tiger as beautiful is

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night

When analyzing a poem, it can be helpful to put what the poem contains in contrast to what one would reasonably expect to find. This is especially helpful with Blake, who seems highly self-aware of his poetic style and diction.

In English, the benchmark poetic line since at least the Renaissance has been iambic pentameter (five feet of breve/stress rhythm). This is what we see in Shakespeare's sonnets and blank verse and it is by far the most common poetic line in English. It is the natural rhythm of English speech, the natural beating of the human heart, the way we walk. It's just hard-wired into our sense of sound and rhythm.

In "Tyger," however, Blake gives us lines of trochaic feet (stress/breve), which are the opposite of iambic:

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?