Thursday, 11 September 2014

Compare the poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" by William Blake.

Blake's poem "The Lamb" consists of two stanzas, each one of ten short lines.
The lines are six or seven syllables in length, with slight variations from trochaic trimeter.
Lines 9 and 10 are repetitions of 1 and 2, while lines 12 and 20 repeat lines 11 and 19. The
lamb of the title is apostrophized and questioned:

Dost
thou know who made thee

The rhetorical nature of the
question is emphasized by the lack of a question mark. Theis simple, even childish, with words
such as "Softest," "bright" and "tender" stressing the lambs
innocence and purity. The second stanza provides the answer to...



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