Analysis of Quest
Carrie Williams Clifford 1862 (Chillicothe) – 1934
My goal out-distances the utmost star,
Yet is encompassed in my inmost Soul;
I am my goal—my quest, to know myself.
To chart and compass this unfathomed sea,
Myself must plumb the boundless universe.
My Soul contains all thought, all mystery,
All wisdom of the Great Infinite Mind:
This is to discover, I must voyage far,
At last to find it in my pulsing heart.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111100011 110100111 111111111 11010111 11101010 1101111100 1101011001 11101011101 1111101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 363 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 283 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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