"The garden of love" by William Blake is a complex and emotional sonnet beneficiating from a simple but nonetheless effective a/b/a/b rhyme scheme. The poem starts in a calm and harmonious place where the environment offers a docile but nonetheless cold and humid background in which the reader plunges with a powerful feeling of drowsiness '' I laid upon a bank, where love lay sleeping, heard among the rushes dank, weeping weeping''. …showed first 75 words of 723 total…

…showed last 75 words of 723 total…realize it is now filled with graves '' And I saw it filled with graves , and tombstones where the flowers should be'' The author slowly turns around, and demonstrates with a languishing tone emanating his distress, that his garden of love has suddenly, and paradoxically turned since the apparition of religion in the ''heath and the wild'' into a garden of death and devastation, where the flowers are now crushed over by the bodies lying.