london

Question 1

i wandered through each chartered streets

Answer 1

chartered streets show how everyone is being controlled by wealth.

Question 2

hapless soldier’s sigh runs in blood down palace walls

Answer 2

1. enjambment illustrates how the blood runs down the wall.
2. personification

the palace walls shows how the death of the soldiers is on their hands

hapless shows how as the british empire was going to war they were not equipped to fight that war leading to people dying for no reason.

first part in each line spells hear showing how the cries of the people is hidden in the lines and is not heard

Question 3

“mind-forg’d manacles I hear”

Answer 3

1. symbolism shows the control london has on its people
2. verb hear. he thinks he’s free but in reality he’s Just as controlled as everyone else and that’s why its so powerful as you are completely unaware. he’s also talking about how he can not only hear the chains of the other people can he can hear his own chains.
3. mind-forged. not physically controlled but mentally controlled and as everyone is being controlled everyone thinks their free. but that is not the case.

Question 4

marks in every face i meet marks in weakness marks of woe

Answer 4

1. repetition shows how it affects everyone
2. weakness everyone is weak and controlled
3. woe lots of sadness

juxtaposes the view of london at that time as everyone was looking at london as symbol of power and wealth and the british empire. but really it’s a terrible place with dark side.

Question 5

rhyme scheme

Answer 5

abab shows the control of the city is the same as how the city is controlling the people that live there.

4 regular stanzas shows streets of london

and the controlled stanza length shows control

Question 6

” the marriage hearse”

Answer 6

oxymoron, marriage = happy , hearse = death . Shows the misuse of power of people during this time