#802: Let Us Ever Walk with Jesus
Dec. 15th, 2019 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsAre the altos getting lots of D?
Yes.
Why does it have so many lines?
I recognize that this is a fairly open-ended question, but bear with me. The first two lines are 8787 (syllable-wise). When a melody starts 8787 it's a good bet that it's going to continue with another 8787; there are twenty-something tunes that have that pattern, and several are used for more than one text.
But here, it continues 87...and then another 7, and then an 8, before finishing with 77.
How do the rhyme schemes play into that?
At first pretty impressively, but then it trails off. The middle 8778 part is trying to be an ABBA rhyme scheme (not like that), where the outside ones are feminine. So we get treading/bidding (okay), laughter/hereafter (nice), passion/heaven (???), and finally members/forever. (...?) It's another "translation by the then-new hymnal team" so nobody to credit/blame for the dropoff.
Yes.
Why does it have so many lines?
I recognize that this is a fairly open-ended question, but bear with me. The first two lines are 8787 (syllable-wise). When a melody starts 8787 it's a good bet that it's going to continue with another 8787; there are twenty-something tunes that have that pattern, and several are used for more than one text.
But here, it continues 87...and then another 7, and then an 8, before finishing with 77.
How do the rhyme schemes play into that?
At first pretty impressively, but then it trails off. The middle 8778 part is trying to be an ABBA rhyme scheme (not like that), where the outside ones are feminine. So we get treading/bidding (okay), laughter/hereafter (nice), passion/heaven (???), and finally members/forever. (...?) It's another "translation by the then-new hymnal team" so nobody to credit/blame for the dropoff.
