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Maker of Heaven and Earth

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You are the Maker of Heaven and Earth, Mighty God. In fact, You are the Creator of the Universe at large. By the way, You have inspired Mr. Cecil Frances Alexander to write a poem about You and You have divided Your versification into seven stanzas with four lines of poetry. You have also included a variety of rhetorical devices, especially figurative language that contributes to the overall effect of the poem by letting us know who You really are. In the following explication, we can use Your gift of discernment to further identify the various of stylistic elements that You have been using.
In all of the quatrains, You have been working with different forms of repetition. In particular, You have been utilizing perfect rhyme in the even-numbered end-stopped lines of poetry and one embodiment of this includes but is not limited to "small" and "all" (2 & 4). Likewise, You have been inserting slant rhyme in the odd-numbered end-stopped lines of verse. An illustration of Your oblique rhyme involves but is not restricted to "open" and "colours" [5 & 7]. According to Your Reference Chart, Your half rhyme is an alternative to Your exact rhyme.
Other exemplifications of Your literary technique are Your parallelisms in the second and fifth poetic paragraphs, e.g. lines 5-8 and 20. There is additionally alliteration in Your verse lines 1, 3, 8, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 26, and 27. Moreover, there is the repetitiveness of Your word all in Your clauses 1-3 and each in rows 5-6. Not only is there an emphasis on Your article "the" in Your linear groups 4, 9-10, 13-15, 17-19, and 21-23. You have been repeating Your capitonym "He" in Your seventh, eighth, twentieth, and twenty-fifth basic building blocks of Your poetry as well.
Besides Your repetitive phrases, You have been featuring imagery in Your art. The personification of Your character in verse lines 7, 8, 20, and 25 are one case of this metaphor. Your nonmetaphorical images, however, are illustrated by "glowing colors" and "tiny wings" in Your seventh and eighth clauses. On a similar note, You refer to Your "ripe fruits" in verse line 19. Through all of Your evocations, nonetheless, You are helping us to get to know You.
Indeed, You are the Maker of not just Heaven and Earth. You are the Maker of everything and everyone. As a matter of fact, You have created all of us and this is actually Your allusion to Your Book of Genesis. In Your gracious wisdom, You have made it all and You have given us Your ability to co-create with You. In other words, You have given us Your creativity and innovation in order to draw us closer to You.

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