The Midnight match

Hey Lynn! Excited to dive in and review your work. I love this chess poem! My husband is rated and plays almost every day - and we live in the Chess capital of the US so.... We're around it a lot lol.

Just as a quick nit-pick, you're missing some spaces following your punctuation! Make sure to put a space after every comma. Maze/ways in the second stanza is a little weak for me, I wonder if there's a better ending word pair to keep the rhythm of the rhyming?

Overall, I enjoy your rhyming scheme, and it feels very natural to me, not like you forced it. I wonder if you added "edge" to the second line how it would flow?

Two kingdoms waiting at the edge of the pooling light.

Lastly, I felt like your last two lines were a little confusing. I'm not sure if it's the way you have it formatted or the wording - but I'm just not sure what you're trying to say?

A final, check the silent, quick end,

This was a fun, quick poem and I thought it merited a fun, quick review! Overall - nice work and fun topic! Keep it up!

Xoxoxox
Sizzle

Hi Lynn! I am here to review your work!

First off, I really like the rhyming pattern. The imagery used in the poem is clear and perfect for chess, so good job!

Where evry choice is measured ,sharp, and clear.

I think this is just a typo? missing an 'e' for every

While bishop watch across diagonal ways.

This may be a typo too but bishop needs to be bishops

A final, check the silent, quick end,

I think the comma need to be placed after check, not before it for this last sentence to read right.

Overall, a really nice poem. Thanks for sharing it with us!