In every (x3). This emphasises the huge scale of suffering in London. It is everywhere and it is inescapable.

Listed, regulated, planned, controlled, owned.

'Marks of weakness, marks of woe.'

The powerful want to control everything and turn everything into private property. But we can't truly control nature. It's a bit of an oxymoron.

4 stanzas. Quatrains (4 lines each). ABAB CDCD rhyme structure.

Metaphor - Soldiers have been sacrificed in foreign wars to maintain the powerful in their palaces.

The church. The monarchy/ aristocracy.

Juxtaposition. The contrast between the innocence of a baby and the swearing, sexually exploited prostitute.

The repetitive structure is symbolic of the inescapable suffering found in London. The rhyme scheme mimics the footsteps of the narrator walking around London.

Oxymoron. Juxtaposes the joy of marriage with the misery of death. The message is that the powerful have destroyed the good things in life.

Prostitute