This is an analysis of the poem This Game Called Chess that begins with:
The knights and bishops and rooks are set.
Just to protect the queen....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBbXcBXXXc XccaddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101111 100101 101110101 1111010101 10111001011 100101 0011110101010 110110110101 1010101101110 100011110010 110 1010111 010110101 111001 101011011101 1111 100 110101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines queen is repeated).
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