London's Summer Morning

One thing I thought was really important to Mary Robinson's London's Summer Morning was the form, and how the poem is written in blank verse. The image that the poem creates about a typical scene on London in the morning is made stronger because of the form the Robinson uses. The enjambment that Robinson uses to make the lines run together and stop abruptly create the illusion of a busy, bustling city, crowded with people and shops and products. Although she did use punctuation quite frequently, it helped the overall form and sound of the poem because it added more of a suspension while reading the poem. There was no real consistent rhythm to the poem, emphasized by the blank verse, but this lack of rhythm also emphasized the movement in the poem and how there is no consistent movement within a city as large as London.
The one spot in which the punctuation and the stop it created felt really natrual was the final two lines of the poem, when Robinson writes, "And the poor poet wakes from busy dreams, / To paint the summer morning" (41-2). Here, the stop feels a little bit more abrupt because the first line is a complete thought, and the comma forces a stop, causing the line to feel like the poet has actually woken up from a dream. The last line of the poem also perfectly sums up exactly what Robinson has done. The rest of the poem moves so quickly through each idea, that it almost feels like a blur. To paint the images that she has described, every single stroke would have to be quick and concise, exactly like the lines she has written.