Speaking
in the first-person plural (technical term for "we"), the speaker in
the hymn declares that it's time to get our praising on.
God is the
subject of this poetic awe and admiration, but he doesn't appear as just
"God." Heck no. This line gets the metaphors going with
"heaven-kingdom's Guardian." "Heaven-kingdom" is an example of a
specific form of Anglo-Saxon compound word called a kenning (see more
under "Imagery."). Keep your eyes open for more examples.
And while
you're at it: Mind the Gap! That cavernous space dividing the line in
half is called a caesura, or pause, and it helps to organize each line's
orderly system of stresses and alliteration (for more, see "Form and
Meter").
he Measurer's might and his mind-plans,
Hope it helps.
