How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #4
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land. (13-16)
This stanza is all about repetition. The words used here ("Jerusalem," "green," "pleasant," "built") have already been used earlier in the poem. The poem thus repeats its own past, you could say, which is the speaker's way of emphasizing his interest in making the present and future just like the past.