In the poem “London,” the poet uses repetition to show how London was a miserable, monotonous place, unlike the world may have perceived it at the time. An example of the repetition used to emphasise the author’s point is in the second stanza: “In every cry of every Man,/In every Infants cry of fear,/In every voice: in every ban,/The mind-forg'd manacles I hear”. The word ‘every’ is used five times in just three lines, emphasising the consistency, monotony, and endless misery the speaker sees around him as he walks along the “charter’d,” ordered, streets of London. This repetition stresses…