This is an analysis of Far From My Heavenly Home by Henry Francis Lyte.

Far from my heavenly home,
Far from my Father’s breast,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gbgb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1011001 101101 10111101 111011 110101 111101 11110111 110101 010111 011101 11110100 110101 101101 111111 11110101 111111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

my

Anaphora

far