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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