london

Question 1

themes

Answer 1

abuse of power
control

Question 2

structure

Answer 2

ABAB rhyme scheme
repetitiveness reflects the relentless and inescapable suffering in the city
Sense of rhythm like steady walking
juxtaposes the steady flow- the jarring inequality between the rich and the poor

Question 3

‘in every infants cry of fear’

Answer 3

children have no hope of a future of freedom as the cycle of poverty will never end.
repetiton of ‘every’ portrays sense of oppression and unfairness.

Question 4

’ marks of weakness, marks of woe’

Answer 4

repetion of ‘mark’ stresses how indelible the suffering was.
they were branded with the look of poverty.

Question 5

‘mind forged manacles I hear’

Answer 5

shows how the poor were stereotyped to be criminals
symbolises how they had no free thinking or the abilty to fight against the goverment
Blake can ‘hear’ the chains symbolises how he could hear the opression and the people trying to fight it.