Analysis of Pursuit



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.


Scheme ABCDEFBGHIG
Poetic Form
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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Peter Courtney Quennell

DescriptionSir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. more…

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