One could say the speaker of "The Lamb" is a shepherd, as, shepherds traditionally tend to flocks of sheep. As seen in the poem, lines three through eight, the shepherd knows that they eat "by the stream & o'er the mead," what their wool feels like, and that the "vales rejoice" or the valleys echo with their "tender voices." Only the shepherd would know the lambs' habits. In stanza two, the reader discovers the lamb's …showed first 75 words of 348 total…

…showed last 75 words of 348 total…delight, soft, tender, wooly, bright. These same words would be used to tell a story to a child. After examining the metre, rhyme scheme, rhythm, patterns in words, connotations, repetition, and describing words, one could say, the speaker is in fact, talking to a child. The speaker believes himself, the lamb, and Jesus are on the same level, therefore, the reader can assume the speaker does the same job as Jesus, who acts as shepherd.