This is an analysis of Hymn For The Class-Meeting by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THOU Gracious Power, whose mercy lends
The light of home, the smile of friends,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXX aabb ccdd ccaa eeff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110101101 01010101 11011110 10010101 11111111 01010101 01011101 01010111 11010111 1101001011 11111111 01110111 01011001 11110101 011111000 011101001 11110111 110010101 110101001 11001101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
of, for, all, we, thy
Anaphora
for, the, thy
