The Eagle

what are the techniques the poet uses in the poem the eagle?

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Tennyson uses rhyming triplets in iambic pentameter. The Eagle has a very conventional rhyme scheme that is simple to follow. The rhymes are formed from one-syllable words. The meter consists of iams with stressed and unstressed beats in the second and third lines of the poem.