This is an analysis of the poem Strange Are The Ways Of Men that begins with:
STRANGE are the ways of men,
And strange the ways of God!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xbdb XdaD Dece XfXf beXe ggag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 110101 110101 111101 1101000 1100001 011001 011001 0100101 110111 1101001 110101 110101 1101001 110101 010101 100101 110101 010101 011101 010111 110111 011101 010101 101001 100101 010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, crest, and, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cry is repeated).
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