The structure of “The Fly” by William Blake the
theme of quality and quantity of human life that is taken for granted is best
reflects the poem’s rhyme. The rhyme in “The Fly” is ABCB throughout the poem,
except the last stanza in which the rhyme is changed in AABA. Changing the
rhyme links together “I” and “Fly” which contributes to his argument that human
life can be as easily ended as the life of a fly. Using iambic dimeter, Blake
create effect of nursery rhyme, make it sound simplistic, which contributes to
his argument that humans take quantity and quality of life for granted, without
any thought.
