A Game Of Chess
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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.
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Submitted by krbalakrishnan on July 30, 2021
Modified on April 26, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AB XXA CXX XXXCB XBXX XXXX XBXX XDD XCX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 934 |
Words | 165 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3 |
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