london

• ABAB rhyme scheme shows separation between poverty and power
• and mark in every face i meet marks of weakness, marks of woe

  every is repeated throughout the poerm - distribution of poverty throughout londen

  marked repeated to show thats what poverty means
• "cry of every man "


  man is a specific noun showing everyone has their individual suffering

  the man is portayed as weak which is foreign to the gender norms
• "infants cry of fear"


  emotive language to make those in power feel more sympathy
• criticises church and royal family " blackning church appalls" , "blood down plaace walls" 


  failure to help and provide for the poor
• stanza one is what he sees
• stanza two what he hears
• "marriage hearse" - oxymoron 


  joy and death, even the most happiest moments end in despair , it is a cycle for those in poverty, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
• in every face he sees there are "marks of weakness marks of woe"

  these show the scars and the damage acting upon those in poverty
• William Blake was a political and religious radical who did not agree with how neither the church or the government operated.

  he was never rich or popular, his work only expresses his actual outlook

  people thought he was mad for instance he thought marriage was slavery which can be related to the quote "marriage hearse"