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What Does The Tyger Mean

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In the poem “The Tyger” by William Blake, a sense of mystery is formed by Blake when he writes, “What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry”. In this line Blake is trying to trying to portray the tiger as an innocent creature that could not harm anything. He also used a stanza by repeating the word “Tyger” throughout the poem because he is continuously wanting to draw the reader’s attention to the innocence of tiger. I had also noticed that at the beginning of the poem Blake had used a trochaic tetrameter when he had stressed the beginning of the sentence “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright” (1) which than destresses by the end of the sentence when he uses unstressed syllables “In the forest of the night what immortal hand or eye
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