Analysis of Death Ground (Senryu)



expect a Dire fight!
when cornering opponents
with nothing to lose
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Tribute to Sun-Tzu

p.s.
on a similar note, please check out the following works: Gods, Chess.


Scheme XAX A AX
Poetic Form
Metre 01011 1100010 11011 1 10111 1 1010011110100111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 183
Words 29
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 2
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Didar Baizhanov

Somewhere between my birth in the land-locked nation of Kazakhstan and becoming U.S. Merchant Marine officer - poetry became something of a satellite in my travels through life ;) ____________________ My most sincere Thank You! for the feedback! ____________________ Here are some poems that I liked (here on Lulu), please give appropriate authors your comments if you get a chance:- October Hearts by PoetryofJune - High(Coup) by JayS (haiku) - Tranquility by Beccanine - Nemesis by Timothy Francis Savage - My Bright Place by Zenocyde - I Fought in a War by Justin R Esplin (haiku) - Love Blooms by Dee Edgett - A Haiku: Violin Music by Clara B. Ray - Cigarettes by faustus - Implode by Elise Hadden - Haiku: Violet Roses by PoetryofJune - The Friend I Didn't Want - Ryan Wong :) - Plus Infinity by Neli Fatu de Valahia - Never Good; Never Bad by Graham Geiger - Two Snowflakes by Kiran - With a grey sky by Spirals - Pine Needles by Matthew Lerette - Bound Again by Danny Warren Patterson - Lie-F by RomanoJohnson - A Child's Memory of a War by Change - A Cold November Day by Bonchance - El espejo roto (The Broken Mirror) by Taqua-------------------------------- more…

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