Front | The Garden of Love - William Blake Further structure in stanza - rhythm x4 |
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Back | •Anapestic trimester in first two stanzas - weak/weak/strong => creates lack of urgency implying it wasn't atypical for love to be interfered with at the time •A rising meter like iambic which creates a conversational, natural rhythm •Until line 6 ‘Thou shalt not’ which moves into a heavy treble stress which conveys the severity of the prohibition •Last two lines tetrameter |
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