The Lamb Key Info
Published: Jan 07, 2025
Updated: Apr 17, 2026
- Title: The Lamb
- Poet: William Blake (1757-1827)
- Published: 1789, in the collection of “Songs of Innocence”. The poem was later included in Blake’s combined “Songs of Innocence and Experience” (1794).
- Setting: Pastoral, Lamb’s natural habitat.
- Form: The poem consists of two ten-line stanzas. This structure frames the poem as a question in the first stanza and an answer in the second.
- Rhyme Scheme: The lines fall into rhyming couplets. Each stanza follows “AABBCCDDEE” rhyme scheme.