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the Nazarene is William Blakes The dear?           William Blakes poem, The Lamb" is depressed into two stanzas. Both stanzas have ten lines for each one. In the initiatory part, each line rhymes with the next. There are a total of five rhymed parts in the first stanza. In the second stanza name and Lamb do not rhyme, but the other lines have the rhyming endings. The first two and the last two lines of each stanza are either the equal or close to being the same. This is almost like a chorus line to a song.      In the first stanza The Lamb, opens with "Little Lamb, who made thee?" A child is most presumable the speaker and asks the lamb how it came to be. The speaker wants to be how the lamb chooses where it feeds. Next, the speaker asks where the lamb got its wool "clothing" and its "tender junction" from. In the next stanza, the speaker tries to answer his own question. The speaker tel ls us that the lamb was made by someone who is called a Lamb". The cleric is a lot like a lamb. He is seen as spicy and pure, just like the speaker, a child, and a lamb.      The lamb most likely symbolizes Jesus Christ. Every time Blake uses the word Lamb it is in The traditionalistic image of Jesus, in the Catholic church, is seen as a lamb. The Christian value of gentleness, purity, and kindness are not only in Jesus but, alike a lamb. In lines 16 and 17 the word child is mentioned. Jesus could also be seen as a child. Jesus left His arrive and father in search of knowledge, as all children do when they go to school. He also lived under the watch of God, His father, like all children do. Finally, most people have heard how Jesus was killed on the cross. That showed how Jesus was seen as vulnerable, much like every child.