London Structure Flashcards

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Describe the rhyme scheme of London

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Regular ABAB

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Describe the meter of London

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Primarily iambic tetrameter with sporadic 7 syllable lines

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What effect does “marks of weakness, marks of woe” being only 7 syllables have?

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It emulates the weakness of London’s suffering people

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Why may Blake have used sporadic 7 syllable lines?

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To emulate the weakness of London’s suffering people but also to remove from the reader comfortable regularity, illustrating the cripling effect the desperate will ultimately have on society

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The regular rhyme scheme juxtaposes the irregular …

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meter

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What could the juxtaposition of London’s regular ryhme scheme and irreguler meter show?

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London may look organised (“chartered”) and wonderful from afar but, close up, it’s in chaos.

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Describe the structure of London

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Cyclical structure
Quatrains 1+ 2 focus on people’s suffering
Quatrain 3 shifts focus to suffering’s institutional causes
Quatrain 4 returns to people’s suffering

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What does London’s cyclical structure portray?

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The inescapable horrors of oppression
How the lower classes are immorally trapped in newly industrialised London
Perpetually restrictive nature of suffering

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The inescapable horrors of newly industrialised London and suffereing’s perpetually restrictive nature are shown by Blake primarily through which structural feature and which alliterative phrase

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Cyclical structure
“mind-forged manacles”

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