London

Links to:

Political conflict

Poet:

•  Born and lived in London
• Christian but disliked organised religion
• Against industrial revolution

Language and structure:

• Cyclical structure, end links to beginning representing a cycle

• Repetitive rhyme scheme and words emphasises the repetitiveness of suffering in the city, "in every" x3, "cry" x3

• 4 lines per stanza, repetition again of suffering

• Strict ABAB rhyme scheme represent strict authority

• "charter'd" repeated in first two lines, charter granted right of ownership of land public land private, made money for wealthy and banks, poet criticises nature being…