LONDON

• "I wander through each chartered street / Near where the chartered Thames does flow" - repetition of adjective reflects how many things in London were owned/controlled by the wealthy
• "Marks of weakness, marks of woe" - repetition emphasises the permanent suffering on London society
• "In every cry of every man / In every infant's cry of fear / In every voice, in every ban," - anaphora emphases overcrowding and overwhelming sense of suffering and oppression + juxtaposition of a babies innocence with 'fear'
• "The mind-forged manacles I hear:" - imagery of entrapment highlights how people are psychologically trapped in beliefs that have been encouraged by the upper-class
• "Every black'ning church appalls" - ambiguity suggesting that buildings are 'blackening' due to the industrial revolution OR implying that the church is corrupt
• "Runs in blood down palace walls" - imagery of 'blood' on symbolic places suggests corruption and death and reflect Blake's anti-authoritarian views
• "And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" - violent imagery associating with sickness and death reflecting how society isn't just physically sick but morally and spiritually + oxymoron suggests that ever hopeful, new beginnings are doomed + biblical imagery references biblical punishments