'i wander thro' - structured as a journey, repetition of charter'd suggests London is owned and people have been robbed of their rights, in stanza two, the repetition of 'every' suggests the enormity of poverty from children through to adults, Blake places blame on the church and state - 'black'ning church' and 'runs in blood down palace walls', final words - 'blights with plagues' suggests everything is destroyed, 'plagues' implies decay with pestilence