Shelley uses many violent images to create a picture in the mind to illustrate his thoughts with effective words to establish the state of order in the nation. Shelley uses a simile in his poem to describe the way leaders hold on and uses the words “like a leech.” The word "scum" refers to the princes, the scum is usually referred to as the least valuable part of anything. 'Muddy Springs' means there may be no promise in saving England in the royal bloodlines. These brilliant uses of simile and metaphor strongly represent the faint-hearted and oblivious monarchs. Shelley uses unappealing vocabulary to put the reader in the position of ignoring monarchical figures with revulsion. In the poem he says: "As an army that kills freedom and preys, it constitutes a double-edged sword for all those who weld" He is saying that the army is corrupt who wastes freedom instead of fighting for it. A double-edged sword is said to be something that has or can have both favorable and unfavorable consequences such as the paradox of the assassin of freedom and freedom itself being killed. “Golden and sanguine” Shelley uses an oxymoron to show his feelings about the unjust laws within society, also using personification and then using a very direct contradiction by saying that they “tempt and kill.” In Shelley saying this within his poem gives the reader of the poem a greater firmer understanding of how the laws were deceptive and overall highly destructive