This is an analysis of God by Gamaliel Bradford.
Day and night I wander widely through the wilderness of thought, Catching dainty things of fancy most reluctant to be caught. Shining tangles leading nowhere I persistently unravel, Tread strange paths of meditation very intricate to travel.
Gleaming bits of quaint desire tempt my steps beyond the decent.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aabb
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,
- Metre: 11111010101000110101010101000110101011101000101110101010100010 1010101011101010 1011101000100110 1110101010001111 001010101010111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 5
Repeated words/phrases
of, my, i
