London - William Blake

• Written by - William Blake
• ABAB rhyme scheme

  • Monotonous, repetitive life
  • Mirrors district government
  • Represents cycle of poverty
• iambic tetrameter

  • Shows monotony of life
  • Blake is saying people should break the rules and free themselves from social restraint
  • reflect sound of his feet and him walking
• cyclical structure- shows that poverty is a cycle and is always repeating
• I wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow
• The mind forged manacles I hear
• every black’ning church appalls
• runs in blood down Palace walls
• and blights with plagues the marriage hearse
• part of the “songs of experience” volume - negative, how innocence is lost and society is corrupt