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The twelve lines of William Blake’s poem ‘The Garden of Love’ belong to the state of Experience that characterizes the present-day world. Experience stands in total contrast to the state of Innocence.
Jan 8, 2018 · As you can see, the main pattern in each line (consistent in the first three lines) is to have a two-syllable foot (e.g. ‘And SAW’) followed by two three-syllable feet. This means we can identify the basic ground-plan of the poem’s metre as something called anapaestic trimeter, with iambic substitutions.
"The Garden of Love" is a poem by English Romantic visionary William Blake. Blake was devoutly religious, but he had some major disagreements with the organized religion of his day. The poem expresses this, arguing that religion should be about love, freedom, and joy—not rules and restrictions.
The first two stanzas of the poem are written in a loose anapestic trimeter and rhyme abcb. The third stanza begins in the same way, but the last two lines of this stanza make a sharp break with the form of the preceding stanzas.
• Lines 10-12 LINES 1-4 I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. The first stanza sets up a comparison between two very different times: how the Garden of Love used to be, and how it is now (that is, in the poem's present-day). The poem makes a
The poem is deceptively simple. It comprises five stanzas of four lines each, called quatrains. The rhythm is complex. The dominant metre is four iambic feet per line, known as...
There are also priests, dressed in black, walking in circles or on a prescribed route, doing “their rounds” (Line 11) of the garden. The final line says that these priests affect the speaker by “binding with briars, my joys & desires” (Line 12).
