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 Rhyme scheme: abcb (cage-rage)

 Personification: The tiger is personified because

the poet refers him as ‘he’.

 Metaphor: Tiger’s paws are compared with

velvet (pads of velvet)

 Imagery: poet tries to create an image about the

tiger (He stalks in his vivid stripes The few steps

of his cage)

 Consonance: use of ‘s’ sound (stalks, his,

stripes)

 Oxymoron: use of adjectives opposite in

meaning (quiet rage)