... favoured tetrameter over pentameter, which was unusual for his time. In "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience", Blake explored unconventional ideas of the nature of God and religion and tried to unite, or balance, his concept of innocence and experience as two different states of life and the human soul. Both "The Lamb" (Songs of Innocence) and its contrary "The Tyger" ("Songs of Experience") invite the reader to consider God and creation in different ... ways. The poet's voice in "The Lamb" is that of a child, asking us to relate the image of the Lamb of God, most innocent of G...

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