#737: He Comes to Us as One Unknown
Feb. 2nd, 2020 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsThis is another great text (I mean I guess you'd hope this section had a lot of vibrant images/metaphors?) Falling stars, ocean foam, and stony hearts! The shift from "one unknown" in the first verse to "unseen but not unknown" in the last is well-done, especially because they don't duplicate any of the other rhymes.
The rhyme scheme is also pretty unusual: we have ABAAB with short lines, and then the last line is duplicated to bring down the Shannon density. The other times this melody is used, it's ABAABB, so there are actually unique lines of text. My choir has sung a different text with the ABAAB(repeat B) arrangement, but that one didn't make it into this hymnal, presumably for being old-timey and sexist in its language.
The rhyme scheme is also pretty unusual: we have ABAAB with short lines, and then the last line is duplicated to bring down the Shannon density. The other times this melody is used, it's ABAABB, so there are actually unique lines of text. My choir has sung a different text with the ABAAB(repeat B) arrangement, but that one didn't make it into this hymnal, presumably for being old-timey and sexist in its language.
