This is an analysis of A Sun-Day Hymn by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
LORD of all being! throned afar,
Thy glory flames from sun and star;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc dddd eedd bbff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101101001 11010111 101101001 10110111 101111001 11110101 10111101 10110001 11101101 11001101 11111101 11010111 10110101 11011101 01110101 11110011 11110111 11011111 11110101 110111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
of, our, thy
Anaphora
our
