London

• Structure and Form

  -regular ABAB rhyme scheme

  -iambic tetrameter to echo never ending suffering in London

  -dramatic monologue

  -corrupt institutions
• ’chartered street, chartered Thames’


  -trapped imagery

  -listed and regular

  -repetition highlights authority and control
• ’black’ning church’


  -colour imagery

  -idea of corruption
• ‘runs in blood down palace walls‘


  -metaphor

  -monarchy is guilty