Question

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”
How does parallel structure help this excerpt from a poem by William Blake?
A) It adds rhythm.
B) It adds imagery.
C) It adds rhyme.
D) It adds reason.

Answer 1

These lines further question how the Tyger was created.

Blake uses the metaphor of the blacksmith, who forms metal with a hammer, furnace (fire), and anvil.

The stanza is very rhythmic, adding further to the chant-like quality that we talked about in lines 1-2.

We also get the sense that the pace and volume is picking up, since the questions are now coming faster and Blake uses his first exclamation point.
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Answer 2

The Answer is:

(A) It adds rhythm.

"The Tyger" is one of William Blake's most well-known and famous poems. It was included in the 1794 book "Songs of Innocence and Experience" as part of the dual collection "Songs of Innocence and Experience."

• William Blake was an artist and poet, an idea developer and illustrator, a philosopher, and a printmaker.
• He presented his poems as integrated works of poetic and visual art, etching words and paintings onto copper plates and printing them in their own shop with his wife, Catherine. He hand-colored the individual prints.
• The repeating of a specific grammatical form within a sentence is known as parallel structure (also known as parallelism).
• A parallel construction is created by making each compared item or notion in your phrase follow the same grammatical pattern.
• A rhetorical question is one that is given to clarify a point rather than to receive an answer. In these lines, Blake has utilised a succession of questions to underscore his point.

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