The first letters of lines in this poem's third stanza form an acrostic reading, "HEAR." This poemdescribes how the "hapless soldier's sigh runs in blood down palace walls," and it claims that venerealdisease "blasts the newborn infant's tear and blights with plagues the marriage hearse." The speaker of thiswork claims to hear "mind-forged manacles" in the voice of everyone he meets while wanderin
The first letters of lines in this poem's third stanza form an acrostic reading, "HEAR." This poemdescribes how the "hapless soldier's sigh runs in blood down palace walls," and it claims that venerealdisease "blasts the newborn infant's tear and blights with plagues the marriage hearse." The speaker of thiswork claims to hear "mind-forged manacles" in the voice of everyone he meets while wandering through"each chartered street." For 10 points, name this poem from Songs of Experience in which William Blakeenumerates the afflictions of the title city.
The first letters of lines in this poem's third stanza form an acrostic reading, "HEAR."
"London"