London

Question 1

Narrative

Answer 1

The poem centres from a ​first-person perspective ​on an annoymous speaker walking through London, and commenting on the filfh and currouption he sees, including the child labour, monarchial abuse, and prostiution he witnesses.

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

London appears in Blake’s poetry collection, Songs of Experience, as the scene of exploitation and social injustice.

Question 3

Structure

Answer 3

This is a four stanza poem that is separated into sets of four lines, known as quatrains.

Question 4

Form

Answer 4

These quatrains follow a rhyme scheme of ABAB throughout the poem.

Question 5

Language techniques

Answer 5

The poem contains Iambic tetrameter and other poetic devices.