london form and structure
- Created by: sky1234
- Created on: 26-10-18 16:00
View mindmap
- London - Form and Structure
- Structure
- Written in first person. this creates an immediacy effect. also makes it seem like a real experience
- The enjambment "I hear how the youthful harlot's curse" shows the everlasting tears of the people
- Blake uses a lot of repetition which could imply the cycle of poverty and that there is no escape for the lower social classes.
- Written In present tense which creates immediacy effect
- No use of caesura shows that there would be no pause in the path to poor which shows that the poor would always be controlled
- Form
- Regular alternate rhyme scheme of ABAB which shows that the lives of the poor will never change.
- This may reflect the regular walking pace of the narrator as he walks around London.
- emphasises the unrelenting suffering and a lack of change in the city
- Dramatic monologue
- 4 lines in each stanza- quatrains- shows that nothing changes
- Regular alternate rhyme scheme of ABAB which shows that the lives of the poor will never change.
- Structure
Comments
No comments have yet been made