Analysis of Pursuit
Peter Courtney Quennell 1905 – 1993
As wind-drowned scents that bring to other hills
Disquieting memories of silences,
Broad silences beyond the memory;
As feathered swaying seeds, as wings of birds
Dappling the sky with honey-coloured gold;
Faint murmurs, clear, keen-winged of swift ideas
Break my small silences;
And I must hunt and come to tire of hunting
Strange laughing thoughts that roister through my mind,
Hopelessly swift to flit; and so I hunt
And come to tire of hunting.
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Metre | 1111111101 01001001100 1100010100 1101011111 101110101 11011111010 111100 011101110110 1101110111 1001110111 01110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 438 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 362 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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