Analysis of The Joker's Curse
Does life resemble a deck of cards,
shuffled back and forth
On brighter days with Ace’s high,
dark days the Joker’s curse
And what about that Wild Card,
that one you can’t be sure
If it will serve to win the day
—or fold your hand once more
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2019)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110100111 10101 11011101 110101 0101111 111111 11111101 111111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 281 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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