This is an analysis of Hymn For The Two Hundredth Anniversary Of King’s Chapel by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
SUNG BY THE CONGREGATION TO THE TUNE OF
TALLIS'S EVENING HYMN…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab bcbc adad efef dcdc cgcgXcfcf
- Stanza lengths: 2,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11010100010 10101 1000010111 11011101 01010101 11110101 1100101011 01000111 011001001 01010101 11110101 01011101 01111111 01111101 010001101 10110101 11010101 11010101 11110101 010100101 011101001 10110101 01110111 110101001 11010101 01011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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