Analysis of Wildcards
When writing the words,
are they thought or then felt
Which to come first,
cards different once dealt
But sometimes together,
as in straights or a flush
They win back the reader
—with more than potluck
(Rosemont College: December, 2021)
| Scheme | XAXA BXBX B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001 111111 1111 110011 101010 101101 111010 1111 110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 242 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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