Analysis of A Game Of Chess
A GAME OF CHESS
K.R.Balakrishnan
Advancing in high hopes
A frenzied pawn died,
My mind fell into distress.
The rook of my enemy
Rolled through the royal path of my heart,
My knight trembled..
How watchful was I
In moving my pawns forward ;
Hark! In a thoughtful moment
A bishop came to stun me,
But my mind was stern.
My knight has no space to jump
It raises its forelegs and neighs again;
Enemy’s chessmen of question-marks
Make an array, cunning.
Will my king get a kingdom
Without shedding blood ?
Will my queen be able to smile
And take over the royal command ?
A lightning assaults my inner self
My brain searches in vain
Ways all,to multiply my intellect
Going through the fields.
One moment ! Heard any sound of tanks ?
Or bombardment in my chess-board
Beyond the horizon of my chest-board ?
After a big bang
Smoke spreads ; and through it I see
A new chess-board with bright rows and columns.
Scheme | AB XXA CXX XXXCB XBXX XXXX XBXX XDD XCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 1 010011 01011 1110101 0111100 110101111 1110 11011 0101110 1001010 0101111 11111 1111111 110110101 111101 110110 1111010 01101 11111011 011001001 010011101 111001 1110110 10101 110110111 10100111 0100101111 10011 1101111 0111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 934 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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