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
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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Written on June 10, 2023

Submitted by gilliansc1102 on June 10, 2023

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Gillian Stanford-Cienfuegos

My name is Gillian and I’m 35 years old. I like to consider myself an artist of sorts—I sing and write. I live in Phoenix with my daughter, Lola Jane and my husband. My favorite writer is Sylvia Plath. more…

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