Analysis of Checkmate!
Here's a little doodle,
I drew myself.
I see a chess board
And every piece
I'm afraid to move.
If I'm going to play the game
I must place my name.
Am I a king, a queen?
well, I did sing:
A rook, pawn, bishop,
I’m a knight
That sounds right.
Every move
It makes me want to faint,
Is this a trait or mental illness state?
Now I'll fall,
But,
If I control my destiny
I can't stall.
Checkmate!
I'll take a prostitute at this rate.
In the end
It doesn't matter
If you're sane or plane,
Just that you played the game.
Scheme | XX XXA BB XXXCC AXD EXXE DD XXXB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (64%) |
Metre | 101010 111 11011 01001 10111 11101101 11111 110101 1111 01110 101 111 1001 111111 1101110101 111 1 11011100 111 1 11010111 001 11010 11111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 2, 5, 3, 4, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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