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Count the syllables in the lines of ‘The Divine Image’. Do you see a pattern?

The first line has eight and the second line has six syllables.


Two syllables make a foot in poetry. Here the first syllable of each foot is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed.

Yes, a pattern can be seen in the lines of ‘The Divine Image’. The first syllable of each foot is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed because in each foot, one of the syllables is more prominent or stronger than the other syllable(s) and it is called the strong syllable. It is the head of the syllable. The other syllables in the foot are the weak syllables.


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How would you explain the lines

For Mercy has a human heart,


Pity a human face,


And Love, the human form divine,


And Peace, the human dress.

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How do Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love get distorted in the human brain?

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Blake’s poetry expresses one aspect of his multi-dimensional view of human experience—of mankind once whole and happy, now fallen into discord and tyranny, from which it must be rescued. Explain with reference to these two poems.

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Certain words in the poem have been capitalized. Can you think of reasons for this?