My Response/Analysis of "London"

Immediately you pick up on the repetition of the word "chartered" in lines 1 and 2, which instantly denote an emphasis on privelege, and the English "establishment". But in the third line says "every face" which changes the focus from the priveleged or extraordinary, to common and ordinary, especially as the fourth line speaks of "weakness" and "woe". Weakness and woe is a characteristic of struggles of the common man, not the "chartered", or those granted special favor or honor by the government. These two pairs of lines bring together the contrasting aspects of London, and set a critical tone, ensuring that the next stanzas will show how London's weak and weary go unassisted, though they live near wealth in the Church and in the Palace.

And indeed, cries from the helpless and underprivileged (i.e. babies, chimney sweeps, soldiers) "appall" the Church, which is "blackening" from the evil of turning a blind eye, and marrs the Palace walls, or the image of London's wealthy institution, as much as bloos running down its walls. And the last stanza describes how the pains and horrors that are found in the streets of London "blights wiht plagues the Marriage hearse". Here, the marriage hearse is supposed to represent both the Church and secualar establishments, and the hearse can only be afforded by the priveleged, so it is symbolic of everything the wretches of London cry out against. And the tone mocks these "institutions" for being stained and "bothered" by these, but turning away anyway, so they won't have to help.