This is an analysis of Casino by Joyce Sutphen.
My mind is shuffling its deck tonight,
slipping one card over another,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcXX XdeaXaea XXcbad
- Stanza lengths: 5,8,6,
- Metre: 110100101 101110010 100110101010 01010100 0100010001 10101100 01011010 1001101 11100101 01111111 1010101 01011010001 01110101 10111001 011010101 01011001 101111010 101010101 111100101101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 19