Analysis of Pawn



A pawn they said,
lowest they said.
Disposable, a commodity
one move, two moves daily.
Eaten in a move, one point only,
Disposable, lowly yet,
in the end who became the ending queen?


Scheme AABBBCD
Poetic Form
Metre 0111 1011 010000100 111110 100011110 0100101 0011010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 184
Words 38
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 140
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Written on September 18, 2022

Submitted by bknlele on September 18, 2022

Modified on March 23, 2023

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