Analysis of Checkmate
Reason dies without faith
men but a pawn
to move in set patterns
not seeing beyond
Logic and cogence
delude and mislead
with vision and instinct
left wounded to bleed
Reason dies without faith
enslaved to the line
paper to crumble
One voice to remind
Years add together
with hope on the run
belief when left wanting
all thoughts zero-sum
(The New Room: December, 2021)
| Scheme | Axbx bcxc Axxx dxxx d |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011 1101 110110 11001 1001 01001 110010 11011 101011 01101 10110 11101 11010 11101 011110 11101 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 377 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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