This is an analysis of In No Strange Land (The Kingdom Of God) by Francis Thompson.

The kingdom of God is within you
O world invisible, we view thee,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aaaa bcbc bdXd dede fgfgXfdfd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 010010011 110100111 110100111 110100111 10000111 101101010 01010101 111001010 01110011 110101010 111000101 010101110 11111101 010111010 11011101 11111010 110101001 111111110 11011111 1101001010 101101101 100111110 110010101 111101010 10100011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

world, we, thee, o

Anaphora

o

Epiphora

thee