In Alfred Lord Tennysons poem, The Eagle, what kind of figurative language is used?

Figurative language paints a picture (interpretation of the poem) by keying the reader into that interpretation by repeating a certain theme. The poem's title infers that the poem is about an eagle, but the first line uses the words "clasps" and "hands", not how you would describe an eagle. These words refer to a human. Next, the third line uses the word "stands", again a word that refers to a human and not an eagle. In the second stanza, the word "crawls" is again something a human does. "Watches" is a word that also infers a human. Finally, an eagle would not "fall". It might dive, but it wouldn't fall. The words I've identified allow the reader to interpret the poem as not about an eagle at all, but about a man who the poet is likening to an eagle.