A lamb is a gentle and meek creature that is both daring and submissive. A lamb is very much like a child. In “The Lamb,” William Blake creates a childlike tone through a very songlike form and structure. What this does is give the poem an innocent view, more in the first stanza than in the second. Through the use of apostrophe, the entire poem being an apostrophe, William Blake attributes human qualities to a …showed first 75 words of 554 total…

…showed last 75 words of 554 total…paradox. There is also somewhat of a riddle that occurs when the child answers his own question to the lamb. The child says the creator also calls himself a “Lamb.” This poem is an apostrophe as a whole. It is also an extended metaphor. Its is also and extended personification. It shows the whole connectedness of all things, it connects it all with the creator, the lamb, Jesus, through the use of the extended metaphor.