| Term | Definition |
| A tiger _ _ _. The twilight here | comes to mind |
| Exalts the _ _ _ Library | vast and busy |
| And _ _ _ _ bookshelves back in gloom; | seems to set the |
| _, _ , bloodstained, sleek | Innocent ruthless |
| It _ _ _ forest and its day | wanders through its |
| _ _ _ along the muddy banks | Printing a track |
| Of _ _ _ _ it does not know | sluggish streams whose names |
| (_ _ _ are no names or past | In its world there |
| Or time to come, _ _ _ _) | only the vivid now |
| And _ _ _ across wild distances | makes its way |
| _ _ _ labyrinth of smells | Sniffing the braided |
| And in the _ _ _ _ of dawn | wind picking the smell |
| And _ _ _ grazing deer; | tantalizing scent of |
| _ _ _ slanting stripes I glimpse | Among the bamboo's |
| The tiger's _ _ _ the bony frame | stripes and sense |
| Under the splendid, _ _ _ _. | quivering cover of skin |
| _ _ and the planet's wastes keep us | Curving oceans |
| Apart in vain; _ _ _ _ house far off | from here in a |
| In _ _ _ dream of you, | South America I |
| Track you, O tiger _ _ _ _. | of the Ganges' banks |