The Lamb William Blake Analysis

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The Lamb’s simple AABB structure gives it a song or lullaby tune, which adds to its innocent and free flowing nature. Another example of this is the poem’s two stanzas, which also adds an element of free flowing nature in the poem. The Lamb is written as a conversation between the speaker, a child, and the lamb. The rhyming of the poem is quite happy and sweet, with words such as ‘delight,’ ‘bright’ and ‘rejoice.’ The structure of this simple and happy poem represents what Blake wishes the world was like in his time, even though he knew that was impossible. On the other hand, The Tyger’s form, with is six quatrains is much more rigid and structured. This structured format is a link to the tyger in the poem, and how Blake portrays it as almost man-made, born in the birth of the industrial revolution. Examples of this are,’ What the hammer? what the chain,’ and ‘In what furnace was thy brain.’ The very rigid structure of the poem gives it a chant like effect, which adds to the theme of the poem; that the tiger is as if it was created by humans, and that it is a beast with a rigid and exact ferocity. The chant like structure is also a link to the chant like and repetitious sounds of the machines that the speaker says helped created the tiger, as well as the machines that Blake was so strongly opposed to. The poem does retain The Lamb’s AABB structure, but that really is the only thing the have in common in terms of form. The rhyming of The Tyger strongly contrasts that of the Lamb, with the sounds of the rhyming words much tougher, a reference to the brutal strength of a tiger and it’s ferocity. In oppose to The Lamb, the general structure of this poem represents Blake’s almost bitter acceptance of the fact that the industrial revolution was permanent, and that the days of nature were behind him and the rest of the world. The imagery in The Lamb is full of
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