This is an analysis of the poem God Works In 'Mysterious' Ways that begins with:
I now think less to have my thoughts assessed better.
I had believed I possessed a process, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcbab XbdcXbXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101110110 1101101011 011010100111 01010001101111 01111110011 111111000101010 110 11010010000111 0110101010101 11111000101010 101010101010101 10011010000 1010111101 1101110111 11100111101101 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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