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  2. The Tyger - Wikipedia

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    The first stanza opens the poem with a central line of questioning, stating "What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?". This direct address to the creature serves as a foundation for the poem's contemplative style as the "Tyger" cannot provide the speaker with a satisfactory answer.

  3. Fearful Symmetry - Wikipedia

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    Fearful Symmetry is a phrase from William Blake's poem "The Tyger" (Tyger, tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?). It has been used as the name of a number of other works:

  4. Adrian Carton de Wiart - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 January 2025. Belgian-British Army officer (1880–1963) This article uses a Belgian surname: the surname is Carton de Wiart, not Wiart. Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO Lieutenant Colonel Carton de Wiart during the First World War Birth name Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart Born ...

  5. Her Fearful Symmetry - Wikipedia

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    Tyger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?". Given the novel's setting, some critics have also pointed out a potential verbal pun in the novel's title, since in received pronunciation "symmetry" and "cemetery" are quite similarly pronounced. [4]

  6. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 31

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    As per the Blake poem:. Tyger, Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? When read in mdoern English, the entire poem has a consistent AABB rhyming scheme throughout, except for these two lines.

  7. Anacrusis - Wikipedia

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    What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? The poem is in trochaic tetrameter, in which the first syllable of each line is expected to be stressed, but the fourth line begins with the additional unstressed syllable "Could".

  8. A UCLA doctor is on a quest to free modern medicine from a ...

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    Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar wants to surpass the anatomical atlas created by a fervent supporter of the Nazi regime whose work was fueled by the dead bodies of its victims.

  9. Koshchei - Wikipedia

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    Kashchey the Immortal by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1848–1926 Koshchei (Russian: Коще́й , romanized : Koshchey , IPA: [kɐˈɕːej] ), also Kashchei (Russian: Каще́й , romanized : Kashchey , IPA: [kɐˈɕːej] ), often given the epithet " the Immortal ", or " the Deathless " ( Russian : Бессме́ртный ), is an archetypal male ...