- woe-sad, deep distress or misery, as from grief; wretchedness
- manacles- Something that confines or restrains, handcuffs, trapped, cannot escape
- plagues-infestation, disease, everywhere, ubiquitous
- charter’d street- rigid, unnatural, man made, planned out, visual
- every cry of every Man-visual and auditory, suffering
- black'ning Church appalls-visual, tactile, slowly dying away
- ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH
Tone-condemning,
lamenting, anger
Subjects:
- Man
- Church
- Harlot
- New born infants
Plot-
As the subject walks,
the unimaginative streets of London, he laments the plight of man he created for himself.
Theme-Man’s
misery is its own creation
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