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- "The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake consisting of two stanzas with five rhyming couplets each.
- The poem is written in the form of a question and answer, with a child asking a lamb who made it.
- The child answers his own question, stating that God, who is associated with Jesus Christ and the figure of the lamb, made the animal.
- The poem is didactic and pastoral, teaching that God is the Lamb that created the lamb.
- The speaker of the poem is a child, in keeping with the childlike innocence found in much of Blake's Songs of Innocence.
- The lamb is a symbol of Christ, innocence, and the nature of God's creation.
- The poem uses literary devices such as alliteration, enjambment, and repetition.
- The themes of the poem include reverence and innocence.
- The first stanza describes the lamb as seen by the child, while the second stanza focuses on abstract spiritual matters and analogy.
- "The Lamb" is a simple and enjoyable poem that can be read and understood by children.
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