In the poem "London '' by William Blake, the author uses repetition to show the presence of distress in the city of London. The city which at the time was one of the most developed cities in the world was instead full of corruption. The author repeats the word “charter’d”, which means ownership. He uses it to show how much the government was in control of people’s freedom, mostly the poor. The church, who is supposed to do no harm to people, was exploiting children into chimney-sweepers. Differentiating people into the upper class and the poor gives more opportunity for the upper class to…