This is an analysis of the poem Pawns In A Game Of Chess that begins with:
People forget...
Who lifted veils from their eyes....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdbeXd fdfddcaba faagabbdg ccdhdhahc abaeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 1101011 1011 111101 0010010010 0111110 101011001000 1110010 1100101010101 10010011010 111101011 00100001110 10100100101 1011110001 111100010 1010110110001 10001 010111 10110111011010 10101001101 101101010111 1001001111 1010101111101 1110111001011 1011111110 0110111111011 111001101000101010 101011010100101 011001010 00110100110100 100111011010 110111 1010010110 11 101100111 0101010001010 11 111011010 010101 1111100 0010001011010110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Pawns In A Game Of Chess;
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