Analysis of London
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
I wandered through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
A mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every blackening church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the youthful harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.
Scheme | ABAB CXCD EFEF DFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11011101 11010111 010100111 1110111 0100111001 010010111 0100101001 011111 101011 10010011 0010101 1011101 1111111 101011 1011101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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