 With Songs of Experience , Axelrod explored darker sounds , as the poems he had chosen dealt with the darker side of humanity . For " The Human Abstract " , he used ascending piano , bass , and percussion instruments to evoke the ghost described in Blake 's poem . It is a bass @-@ driven , funky song that juxtaposes augmented sevenths strummed on an electric guitar against an acoustic piano and muted horns . According to music critic Thom Jurek , " The Divine Image " and " A Little Girl Lost " elicit feelings of majesty and " pastoral sadness " , respectively . " London " was recorded by Axelrod as a tone poem to reflect Blake 's opening stanza about the spiritual climate of London at the onset of the Industrial Revolution : " I wander thro ' each charted 'd street / Near where the chart 'd Thames does flow / And mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness , marks of woe . " 
