London

• 'Runs in blood down palace walls.'

  • The monarchy responsible for peoples deaths due to ill planed wars
  • Innocence ruined by external power
• 'The mind-forged manacles I hear:'


  Metaphor

  Imagery - Chimney sweepers

  Chains and Restraints

  Blake felt like people could not in-visit change
• 'Blights with plagues the marriage hearse'

  • Oxymoron
  • marriage should be the start of a new life
• Structure

  • 4 stanzas 4 lines
  • to reflect controlling government trying to suppress sedition