Analysis of The Chase
Ron McKinnon 1948 (Windsor)
Here I go again disturbing the den of my unconscious mind,
As if I were a hound and it a fleeing hind.
Still, fawnlike, it eludes my capture.
Only leaving behind a perilous rapture.
But if I should manage to enthrall it,
I fear a sudden doom might befall it.
And deeper doom, should I consciously inflict
A mortal wound, but I cannot cease luring it.
For deepest doom of all -
The chase done -
The Beauty gone -
Scheme | AABBCCDCEFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010100111101 111001010101 11101110 101001010010 111110111 1101011011 01011110001 010111101101 110111 011 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 411 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 318 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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