This is an analysis of Hymn Written For The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Of The Reorganization Of The Boston Young Men’s Christian Union by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
OUR Father! while our hearts unlearn
The creeds that wrong thy name,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd ebeb fgfg hfhf ijij
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11011110 011111 11110101 010101 11010101 111111 01011101 1101011 11011100 11001001 11010101 111101 010101001 111101 11010101 010101 010100101 111111 01110101 110101 11011101 110101 111100101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
our
Anaphora
our
