London
- Created by: ali3006
- Created on: 06-12-18 17:08
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- London
- Form
- Dramatic monologue
- First person narrator passionate and personal about suffering he sees
- ABAB rhyme scheme- unbroken throughout poem
- Echo's relentless misery of city
- Regular rhythm stimulates sound of narrators feet while trudging around
- Dramatic monologue
- Structure
- Presents relentless images of downtrodden deprived people
- First two stanzas focus on people he sees and hears
- Rhetoric
- Rhetorical language persuades the reader of the narrators point of view
- Powerful, emotive words and images reinforce horror of situatiom
- Repetition used to emphasise number of people effected and society needs changing
- Rhetorical language persuades the reader of the narrators point of view
- Use of the Senses
- Depressing sights and sounds of city
- First stanza about what he sees
- Second stanza about what he hears
- last two combine visual and aural
- Second stanza about what he hears
- First stanza about what he sees
- Depressing sights and sounds of city
- Contrast
- Shows the bigger picture of how EVERYTHING is affected
- Nothing pure or innocent remains
- Form
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