Through repetition, William Blake shows the atrocious living conditions of the working class back in the 1790s. This technique is used from the very beginning of the poem: “I wander thro’ each charter’d street / Near where the charter’d Thames does flow” (Blake 1). The word “charter’d”, meaning “owned” or “entitled”, is used twice to describe the streets of the city and the river that flows through it. This gives an uneasy feeling that the city is the property of someone or a group of people. It demonstrates that the citizens cannot run freely around town as their life is being controlled by…