The "Introduction to the Songs of Innocence" was made very clear. In this poem, the speaker takes the role of a piper. While he was piping down a valley, he saw a child on the cloud, which represents an angel that asked him to write down his happy songs. The reason why he wrote the Songs of Innocence and who the poems are intended for is stated at the end of the poem. It is so that "every child may joy to hear." Blake made the poem appealing to children by having seven syllables in each line so the poem can flow when read out loud. He used repetitions in the last verse by repeating "and I", and like all children's verse, he used rhyming.
             "Infant Joy" is another poem that appears in the Songs of Innocence. Again, Blake uses rhyming in this poem. There are two speakers in this poem. The part, "I am but two days old" indicate that one of the speakers in the poem is a baby. The other speaker of the poem appears to be the guardian of the baby who's pondering of a name for the two-days-old infant.
             A poem from the Songs of Experience is "A Poison Tree". Like in the other poems so far, Blake used rhyming in the form of AABB. But unlike the other poems, "A Poison Tree" isn't as translucent. The speaker does not reveal who he/she is to the reader. All the reader knows about the speaker is that the speaker holds a grudge for the enemy. The apple in the poem is symbolic of the speaker's anger and the "soft deceitful wiles" or deceitful tricks that the speaker has in store for the foe. The part when the foe stole into the speaker's garden to steal the apple meant that he fell into one of the speaker's lure and died the next day. In other ways, the poem could be about Adam and Eve. The speaker could be the snake that lives in the poison tree. The apple would then stand for all the evilness in the world. The poison ...