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"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''. …

…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.