#804: Come Down, O Love Divine
Mar. 16th, 2020 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsThis is a case of the archaic "my" + vowel = "mine" formula. Composer is Ralph Vaughan Williams, who gets around.
Pretty consistent approach to feminine rhymes--all of the two-syllable ones are -ing words. However, there's surprisingly little of the matching verb stuff: "consuming/illuming" is verb/verb, but kind of over-the-top since "illuminating" is much more common. "clothing" is a noun (and in this context "loathing" might also be); ditto "dwelling," which rhymes with "telling." So they mix it up a little.
Pretty consistent approach to feminine rhymes--all of the two-syllable ones are -ing words. However, there's surprisingly little of the matching verb stuff: "consuming/illuming" is verb/verb, but kind of over-the-top since "illuminating" is much more common. "clothing" is a noun (and in this context "loathing" might also be); ditto "dwelling," which rhymes with "telling." So they mix it up a little.
