london by william blake

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  • London by William Blake
    • form
      • ABAB
        • this rhyme scheme is unbrocken
        • shows the relentless misery of the city
      • regular rhyme sceme
      • reflect the sound of his feet as he walks around
    • structure
      • first and second stanza
        • focuses on things he can here and see
      • third stanza
        • he holds responsibility
      • fourth  stanza
        • returns looking at people
        • shows how the newborn were effected
    • rhetoric language
      • to persuade you to view him in his point of view
      • he uses powerful and emotive words to reinforce you in the horror situation
      • repetition is used to emphasise the amount of people affected
        • 'every... every...every..'
    • uses sense
      • depressing sights and sounds of the city
      • 1st stanza = sees
      • 2nd stanza = hears
      • 3rd + 4th = visual
      • 'youthful harlot's curse'
        • there is a curse on london
    • pair the poem with
      • ozymandias
      • light brigade
      • my last dutchess
    • conflict between the poor and the wealthy
    • feelings = anger
      • emotive language
      • repetition show the narrator is angry
      • ' every'
    • feelimgs = hopelessness
      • ' mind-forged manacles'
      • people blamed themeselves

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