#518: We Eat the Bread of Teaching

The verses are very rhythmically consistent--their pattern is 8888, which is very common. So common that it even gets a nickname, "Long Meter." Now, the verses are not the only part to the song, there's also the refrain, which comes before the verses and gives the song its title. There are several other hymns that are categorized as "LM and Refrain," which doesn't mean you can interchange any two of them, because the respective refrains might be different. But even though this one is also clearly LM and Refrain, the tune metric goes down as "PM" for "Peculiar Meter." Is it really just starting with the refrain that throws the indexing out of whack?