London Quotes Flashcards
Quote from london about the physical changes to the people from london
Marks of weakness,marks of woe
This line reveals that the people of London are not happy with the order imposed on them, nor with the social constraints that they cannot escape.
Quote from london showing crying from different people
In every cry of every man
In every infant’s cry of fear
incites sympathy in the reader and also shows pessimistically how every life is destined for misery.
Quote from london showing people not being able to escape their mind
The mind forged manacles i hear
Quote from london showing his displeasure with the church
Every black’ning church appalls
even the church, the holiest part of the entire city, used the poor innocent boys to clean their chimneys.
Quote from london showing how soldiers and normal people suffer whilst rich are hidden
The hapless soldier’s sigh
Runs in blood down palace walls
To show that those in power have blood on their hands for sending so many men into war. The soldier’s ‘hapless sigh’ suggests that he feels powerless to change things.
Hapless - adjective unfortunate
Quote showing how the poverty and corruption of people in london effects the young
How the youthful harlot’s curse
The idea of a youthful harlot suggests the level of poverty and corruption, that a girl who was yet a youth would be involved in prostitution.
Final line in london using oxymoron of disease with marriage
Blights with plague the marriage hearse
Structure in London
Uniform stanza length (to show order and control)
Iambic tetrameter (8 syllables) [broken by some lines to emphasise marks of weakness
ABAB rhyme scheme throughout shows unending misery of London
