Rose-buds representing youth, fragility, and chastity, align with the "coyness" in the last stanza. The poet is inviting women to pluck the rose-bud, and kill this coyness in themselves.

Kinesthetic Imagery: invokes an image of the sun passing through the sky

The omnipresence of the effects of urban life.

Blake speaks to the lower class through his use of informal diction.

River through London, Middle English Temese, from Old English Temese, from Latin Tamesis (51 B.C.E.), from British Tamesa, an ancient Celtic river name perhaps meaning "the dark one." The -h- is unetymological.

The irony of the river as a symbol of freedom, now the property of the ruling class.

The word "chartered" as a criticism of the industrial revolution and the privatization of previously public land.

The emphasis created through the use of anaphora in this stanza gives the reader the sense that the manacles are inescapable and infused into every mind, including that of infants.

"Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"

The solitude of the night enables him to reflect on feelings that he can't easily share with others during the day.

The poet engages the readers by asking us to listen to the owl's cry. The sharpness of the word "hark" also conveys the shock of having suddenly heard a loud cry.