The Poems of William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper
Identify the simile in line 6. Explain what is being compare with what (be very specific), and how the comparison helps to characterize young Tom Dacre?
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The comparison is with a lamb. The boy and the lamb symbolize gentle innocence in a cruel world.
That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved: so I said,
