Critical Analysis Of “The Eagle’ By Lord Critical Analysis Of “The Eagle’ By Lord Tennyson Critical Analysis of “The Eagle’ by Lord Tennyson The name of the poem I am writing about is called? The Eagle? by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It is in figurative language form. The poem is divided into 2 Stanza’s with 3 lines each. And there are an average of 9 feet a line. The rhyme scheme is every last word in each stanza rhyme’s. Some of the imagery is with sight and sound.
For sight they are? Close to the sun? , ? Azure world? , azure mean the blue color in a clear daytime sky. ? Wrinkled sea beneath? , and? mountain walls? . The only one that was imagery of sight & sound was? like a thunderbolt he falls? . The figures of speech are? wrinkled sea? , which means the waves in the ocean.
And one simile is? like a thunderbolt he falls? , it is saying how fast a eagle dives. The poems theme is how an eagle can fly so high and dive so fast. And how free an eagle is. I thought that this was a nice poem. I like the way he uses the words. I think the rhyming scheme he used was appropriate, where every last word rhymed..