London

• London has an alternative rhyme scheme dominating how the monarchy is controlling
• London was written after the French Revolution occurred and William Blake may be encouraging a revolution in England
• London was written during the industrial revolution which widened the class divide
• People are mentally trapped

  " The mind-forged manacles I hear "

  • Semantic field of oppression causing manacles in individual minds
  • Symbolism as manacles are metal bands intertwined with each other like how the people of London are linked to impression and since they are mind forged they cannot escape
• The people are effected by decisions of the monarchy

  " Marks of weakness, marks of woe. "

  • End stop
• Babies crying

  ” In every infant‘s cry of fear “

  • Anaphora cyclical torturing of London people
  • Oxymoron with juxtaposition of “infant’s” and ”fear” as youth has been corrupted