Analysis of The Magician
She’s an escape artist
Now you see her, now you don’t
Mystified, with tears in her eyes
She’s a lone wolf
She has a Midas touch
Everyone she grazes turns to gold
She makes you feel like you’re one in a million
She’s one of the greatest stories told
She’s the Wild West
You better come prepared to draw
She’ll take your heart and rip it out of your chest
She’s an outlaw
Her eyes penetrate your soul
She doesn’t even have to try
Even when she’s suicidal
One glance has you high
She’s an enigma
She’s the one that got away
She’s the one you wanna marry
And the one you can’t get to stay
She’s a ticking time bomb
Hit her trigger and she’ll see red
In 0.3 seconds she’ll make you her target
Verbally assault you and leave you for dead
She’s candid and heartbroken
She holds all of her cards as close as she can
She doesn’t believe in feelings
And that gives her the upper hand
She’s a Magician
& for her next trick
She’ll make everyone that loves her
disappear
She’ll wander back into her lonely world
Where she has nothing—
so she has nothing to fear
Scheme | AAXX XBCB DEDE XFXF XGXG XHXH CXXX CXXIXXI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (26%) |
Metre | 110110 1110111 1011001 1011 110101 1011111 11111110010 111010101 1011 11010111 11110111111 111 011011 1110111 1011010 11111 11010 1011101 10111010 00111111 101011 10100111 010111010 01001101111 110010 11110111111 1101010 01100101 10010 1011 1110110 01 1101010101 11110 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,123 |
Words | 230 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
I read Tarot cards and I happened to pull The Magician card as my theme for the month of June. I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of a magician because I used to have friends call me “Houdini.” I used some real things I have beads from people I once was close with.
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