London By: William Blake

William Blake
"London"

1. LONDON
By: William Blake

2. William blake
-Uses a downbeat negative tone.
-View of london: Poverty-driven and polluted areas. Pain and
emotion of the people.

3. Form
-The poem has four quatrains, with alternate lines rhyming.
-Repetition is the most striking formal feature.
-He uses metaphors.
-He is Ironic.

4. I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow,

5. A mark in every face I meet

6. Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

7. In every cry of every man

8. In every infants cry of fear

9. In every voice, in every ban

10. The mind forg’d manacles, hear

11. How the chimney sweepers cry

12. Every black’ ning church apalls

13. And the hapless soldiers sigh

14. Runs in blood down palace walls

15. But most thro’ midnight streets I hear

16. How the youthful harlots curse

17. Blast the new born infants tear

18. And blights with plagues the marriage hearse