This is an analysis of the poem One Cannot Grasp God that begins with:
God is the purest naught, untouched by time and space;
The more you reach for Him, the more He will escape....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101011111 011111011001 1010101010 01001010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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