The Game Of Chess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGHAI JKLMCBN| Red knights brown bishops bright queens | A |
| Striking the board falling in strong L's of | B |
| colour | C |
| Reaching and striking in angles | D |
| holding lines in one colour | C |
| This board is alive with light | E |
| these pieces are living in form | F |
| Their moves break and reform the pattern | G |
| luminous green from the rooks | H |
| Clashing with X's of queens | A |
| looped with the knight leaps | I |
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| Y' pawns cleaving embanking | J |
| Whirl Centripetal Mate King down in the | K |
| vortex | L |
| Clash leaping of bands straight strips of hard | M |
| colour | C |
| Blocked lights working in Escapes Renewal of | B |
| contest | N |
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