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Both quatrains are based on a poetic form that was popular in England and the United States during the 18th-to-mid-20th centuries, in which a person stated their name, country, city or town, and a religious homily ( often, " Heaven's my destination ") within the rhyming four-line structure ( see book rhyme ).

This literary device had been previously used by James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.