The question has the potential result of many answers and a lot of confusion because of the wide range of beliefs present in the world, and is an even more complex issue for a child, yet Blake wrote the poem with great simplicity. The Lamb has a simple form that reflects the structure: one longish, 10-line stanza of questions, and an equally long second stanza of answers. The language used is very simple and has a child-like softness, especially in the use of the word "little" in the phrase of "little lamb," which is also an example of alliteration. Repetition was used in the lines "Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?" "Little lamb, I"II tell thee," and "Little lamb, God Bless thee." The rhyming scheme in the poem is very simple, taking the form of A, A, B, B, C, C and so on. All of these techniques used in The Lamb, and the fact that the speaker is an innocent child, add to the observation that Blake's art is one of putting the complex into the simple.
The poems published in The Songs of Experience are somewhat simpler in the way that the speaker of the poem is the voice of experience, warning the innocence about the futility of life. They demonstrate an older person's realisation that there is pain and terror when they are faced with the world of law, morality and repression. They show a world opposite to the one in The Songs of Innocence, one in which the fallen state is examined and religious double standards is examined. The complex issues explored in The Songs of Experience include prostitution, anguish, poverty and human rights. Blake transformed these complex matters into a simpler form by using the same techniques as the ones he used in The Songs of Innocence. That is, he used simple language and construction through alliteration, repetition, punctuation and the rhyming scheme to make the complex issues take a clearer form.
London, a poem that was published in The Songs of Experience, is another work where Blake has put the complex into the simple.