This is an analysis of To The Temple I Repair by James Montgomery.
To Thy temple I repair;
Lord, I love to worship there…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eedd ccXX XXfX ggff hhfX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0110101 1110101 1010111 1010101 1111101 1110111 1010111 0110111 11100101 1111011 1110111 1011100 1010101 1010101 1111101 11101000 1110011 1110101 1110101 1110100 1110001 1110011 1111111 1110001 0111101 1110111 1110111 11101100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
i, thy, my
Anaphora
i, hear