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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