Where as in the Hawk Roosting there is no regular repeating rhyme schemes it is not constant.
Both poems are about birds of prey but each poem shows a different aspect of the bird's life. In "The Eagle," Tennyson shows the god like image, almost indestructible. He does this by using lines like "And like a thunderbolt he falls." This refers to the ancient gods and gives you an image of a god throwing the eagle at its prey.
Whereas in "The Hawk", the bird is almost referred to as a murderer, or at least a cold hearted killer, for example, verse four line four, "My manners are tearing off heads" and in verse one line four "Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat". This does not give me the impression of a god or a magnificent being, just of an animal evolved to kill and this is exactly what it says in verse three lines two and three "It took the whole of creation, to produce my foot, my each feather".
It also shows or tells us of arrogant the hawk is. This is stated in verse three line four "Now I hold creation in my foot". This means that he decides which parts of creation may live or die. This is bluntly stated at the beginning of verse five "The allotment of Death", simply meaning that he chooses what dies. At the end of that verse, the writer says, "No arguments assert my right". This means there are no discussions or arguments, it is his right to kill what he chooses and nothing is going to change that. This is clear in the last verse and the last three lines:
"Nothing has changed since I began
My eye has permitted no change
I am going to keep things like this".
In these two poems there is one thing in common, both writers are putting the birds across as arrogant creatures. This is obvious in the "Hawk Roosting", but in "The Eagle" it is more of a subtle arrogance, a majestic arrogance, like a king or even a emperor especially the way he decries the sea as “wrinkled crawling before him”.
I think the use of words in the "Hawk Roosting" is very different to in “The Eagle”
For example there are a lot o unusual words in the "Hawk Roosting" like “Sophistry” in verse four line three or “falsifying” this means misleading and is in verse one line two. In “The Eagle” there are little or no unusual words except for azure in line three verse one.
I think 20th century poets tend to use less rhyme schemes and rhythms in their poems but use unusual words and alliteration. For in the “Hawk Roosting” there is not much rhyme and barely any rhythm. Were as in “The Eagle" there is a definite rhyme scheme and rhythm there is also more imagery used in “The Eagle” for example” the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls” line one, verse two. This again emphasizing the god likeness and how the sea should must crawl beneath him almost subservient, another is “And like a thunderbolt he falls” this gives the impression of a god, like the god of thunder throwing a thunderbolt down to earth.
So in conclusion from these two poems I would say 20th century poems concentrate more on word choice and alliteration to give the affect were as 19th century use rhyme rhythm and imagery
