By capitalizing both Man and God the result is an extremely taboo literary piece for its time period that places God in the same perspective or level as humanity. The capitalization of both Man and God is the primary support but not the only support that Blake uses to place emphasis on this particular belief. Blake also ties in the phrase " Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love" as equal virtues that Man and God have in common.
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Since Blake's " The Divine Image" touches a very taboo topic for his time period that Man and God are truly of the same "image" you would expect a more subtle structure however it is very easy to convey his general idea on the topic because of his declarative form. He writes in a poetic essay style that declares a belief. Unlike many other declarative essays that have taboo topics, Blake uses extremely simple word as the elements and still creates a very artistically complicated form and structure as his principles. He chose an odd design for this piece for this piece by having a simple meter throughout except when he made the last line of stanza four an iamb. He also chooses to combine two words and create a "falsified" iamb on two occasions. He does this by having the second word, of the combined two; take up an accent to thus create an iamb. An example of this type of structural detail is in the third line which reads, " And to these virtues of Delight." The word " to" takes an accent when read.
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Blake also uses the arrangement of "Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love" in an effective way. In almost all the lines he writes them in the individuals words in this particular phrase in the same order. To keep their structure consistent, he placed the double syllable words first and places the single syllable, "Love", second. He not only increased the alliteration by ordering the words by syllables but by placing the words that start with "P" together. His choice of writing the most memorable words consistently created a pleasant flow throughout the poem.
