in front of weep to associate the words weep and sweep to show that the chimney sweepers while they were sweeping they were often crying or sobbing. This really helps the reader understand how miserable the lives of these children were.
In "The Chimney Sweeper (1789)" poem the main character has a name and in
"The Chimney Sweeper (1794)" poem the protagonist is never referred to with a name but merely referred to as, "A little black thing among the snow,"(1). Blake gave the chimney sweeper in "The Chimney Sweeper (1789)" poem a name to make a connection to the reader that it was just a normal person like them, that was forced into doing such dangerous and harmful labour. In "The Chimney Sweeper (1794)" poem the protagonist is not given a name …show more content…
This rhyme scheme creates a joyful and innocent tone. The effect of creating this tone is that it makes a bigger impact on the reader to show just how awful the life of a chimney sweeper was. Blake uses this effect in the first stanza, "When my mother died I was very young, / And my father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry
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'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! / So your chimneys I sweep, and in the soot I sleep."(1,2,3
& 4). Blake creates an AABB rhyme scheme in the first stanza, then switches it to an
ABAB rhyme scheme in the rest of the poem. Blake uses the AABB rhyme scheme in the first stanza to create a happy tone which puts more emphasis on how bad the life of this chimney sweeper is. In the second and third stanza William Blake uses the ABAB rhyme scheme to create more of a serious tone, which is used when he is saying the harm that chimney sweeping has caused them.
William Blake really shows how horrible the lives of a chimney sweeper were.
The innocent children were looked at as a tool to clean chimneys instead of a normal person, with their health being completely disregarded to provide a service to the wealthy people. It's hard to believe this cruel abuse towards innocent children was allowed only a little more than 200
In "The Chimney Sweeper (1789)" poem the main character has a name and in
"The Chimney Sweeper (1794)" poem the protagonist is never referred to with a name but merely referred to as, "A little black thing among the snow,"(1). Blake gave the chimney sweeper in "The Chimney Sweeper (1789)" poem a name to make a connection to the reader that it was just a normal person like them, that was forced into doing such dangerous and harmful labour. In "The Chimney Sweeper (1794)" poem the protagonist is not given a name …show more content…
This rhyme scheme creates a joyful and innocent tone. The effect of creating this tone is that it makes a bigger impact on the reader to show just how awful the life of a chimney sweeper was. Blake uses this effect in the first stanza, "When my mother died I was very young, / And my father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry
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'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! / So your chimneys I sweep, and in the soot I sleep."(1,2,3
& 4). Blake creates an AABB rhyme scheme in the first stanza, then switches it to an
ABAB rhyme scheme in the rest of the poem. Blake uses the AABB rhyme scheme in the first stanza to create a happy tone which puts more emphasis on how bad the life of this chimney sweeper is. In the second and third stanza William Blake uses the ABAB rhyme scheme to create more of a serious tone, which is used when he is saying the harm that chimney sweeping has caused them.
William Blake really shows how horrible the lives of a chimney sweeper were.
The innocent children were looked at as a tool to clean chimneys instead of a normal person, with their health being completely disregarded to provide a service to the wealthy people. It's hard to believe this cruel abuse towards innocent children was allowed only a little more than 200