The poem "The Eagle" by Tennyson, is an example of lyric poem. The expressing of celebration addressed to the eagle makes the poem an ode. The stanza patterns in this poem are called a tercet. In the iambic rhythm there are six tetrametric lines. There's a simple dialectic of status in the first stanza and motion in the second stanza, concentrated on the last word of each line in the stanza. This poem was a rhyme scheme of AAA BBB.
             This poem is a thorough sketch of the bold eagle. I say sketch because of the abundant amount of imagery used in this poem. Imagery is in every line of this poem. Line one gives the reader a visual of an eagle with his claws dug into the mountain side. In line two, the reader is able to picture an eagle off in the sun alone. Line three says "azure world" (3), which stands for a bluish world, which allows the reader to image an eagle flying solo over the seas. In line four there is a little bit more imagery. With the "wrinkled sea beneath he crawl" (4), the reader is allowed to possibly hear, see, smell, and taste the salt from the sea. In line five it is easy to visualize the eagle all alone on top of the mountain. Then in line six, the last line, the reader is able to get a beautiful visual of an eagle souring down from his mountain tops.
             In this poem there are two stanzas. Each stanza has there're own alliteration, focusing one the last word of each line: hands, lands, stands and crawls, walls, falls. There is no other sound element in poem such as assonance and onomatopoeia. There is also no use of diction in Tennyson's poem. There is however figurative language in his poem, to some. Some could say the eagle symbolizes a man. The "crooked hands" (1) and the "wrinkled sea" (4), symbolize that the man is an older man. "Watches from his mountain wall" (5), symbolizes protection of
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