LONDON WILLIAM BLAKE

• 4 Quatrains (ABAB) - regular - creates foot steps as Blake 'wander through each charted street'
• Iambic tetramete (deeDum *4) - keeps the reader in the poem, helps then remember.
• The last line on each stanza tends to deliver a powerful statement which sums up the rest of the stanza.

• Blake was inspired by the French revolution which was happened 5 years before he wrote London.
• How power can be abused - Black blames the church and the Monarchy 'black'ing church' 'blood down palace walls'
• He was a radical thinker for the time and believed in equality. 'every man'
• Blake worked and lived in London, the poem is through Blake eyes on his daily walk through London. 

Connections:

• Pride/Glory - Ozymandias, charge of the light brigade, My last Duchess
• Rhythm- checkingout me History, Charge of the light brigade

• 'I wander through each chartered street,' - could be anywhere in London; allows people to use their own exsperince.

'CHARTED' - nature contolled by man - known to everyone

'WANDER' - homophone to 'wonder' - gone for a walk to think?

• 'Marks of weakness, marks of woe.' - alliteration links weakness with woe; 'Marks' is a noun for the peoples faces - shows how they feel inside and how they look outside.

'In every cry of every man,  - repeat of 'In every' shows the scale of suffering.

In every infant's cry  of fear,  - Juxstaposition what we expect, but what Blake sees.

In every voice, in every ban,'

'Mind-forged manacles' - Metaphor that thoughts and beliefs can trap up - alliteration draws attention to the metaphor.

'I hear:' - first person; poetic voice; Blake. ':' links to the next stanza carrys on the message.

'How

Every

And 

Runs' - imperative verb instrustion - acrostic form

'black'ning church' - ambigous; dirty, death - society tanted. 'ning' - reveals on going  - Juxstapositon with 'black'ning' and the holy site that is a 'church'

'haple** solider's sigh' - sibilance: conveys the sound of a sigh. If you changed th 'a' for an 'o' it would be hopele**.

'blood down palace walls' - Oxymoron; blood;pain, weak (injury) - palace; clean, power;strong. 'walls' defensive; yet corupted by blood (death) - symbolic metaphor for society and the way they used to live.

'How the youthful harlot's curse' - oxymoron, 'youthful'; innocent, hope: 'harlot'; tainted; sin. 'curse' - suggest forced upon her had no chose. 

'blights with plagues the marrige hearse' - suggests that everything which is positive is always tainted. The union of society is corupt. This is aslo suggested with the word 'blights'; spoiled; damaged.

'How'

• Is always after 'hear'.
• Emphasises on the lowest in society.
• Tells that you are not just hearing them cry.
• Blake understands - sympathy/compassion.