• Writer: William Blake (1757-1827) 
• Title of the Author: English poet and painter
• Full Title: The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died, I was very young
• Original Title: The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died, I was very young 
• Published Date: 1789, Songs of Innocence. 
• Tone: Sorrowful 
• Genre: Romantic Poetry
• Rhyme Scheme: AABB. This Poem is made up of six quatrains, or four-line stanzas.
• Total Lines: 24

Time Setting: During the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s.

Place Setting: The poem is set in London,