I Heard The Tread Of Hunters
I heard the tread of hunters
Snapping forge in broken trail
Across the shell-backed, pheasant-
Fathered leaves along the tracing
Snowgold waters of October.
I heard the tread of hunters pacing
Pair by peer beneath the moldy
Harvest of the walnut trees.
I heard the tread of hunters signal
Terror to the deer
Who wandered at the grassline
Of the clover-beaded pool and
Watched them twitch their hate
For death and fly--
Fleet hooves, blood and cinder
Fading small as owls away
Their Mandarin-
Delicate flanks
Leaping in the gloom.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXAB AXX XXCXXX BXCXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 511 |
Words | 90 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 6, 5 |
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