Analysis of Verbal Cantrips



First, Just Words

Quest of the heart,
Comes without choice,
After first vision,
Before the first voice,
A true word of caution,
Great or small that you be,
Oak worships a willow,
Tree understands tree.

And then it seems, as if a dream,
A maiden on her steed appeared,
But as dreams are, far as a star,
Beyond my reach, Rhiannon fades.

To tell the youth from one who’s grown,
The answer is clear to see,
For the elder wish to be a child,
And the child, an adult thinks he be.

Whatever be your lot in life,
Whatever be your da’n,
Strive to be the brilliant flame,
That burns when the ember’s gone.

If money be the root,
Of evil to us all,
Then go to church and purge your sins,
At your local shopping mall.


Scheme X XABABCXC XXXX XCXC XXXX XDXD
Poetic Form Tetractys  (24%)
Metre 111 1101 1011 10110 01011 011110 111111 11001 1011 01111101 01010101 11111101 011111 11011111 0101111 101011101 001101111 1011101 10111 1110101 1110101 110101 110111 11110111 1110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 729
Words 144
Sentences 5
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 8, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 23

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Written on 1985

Submitted by Warbard on September 24, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Warbard

Poet & Philosopher, Soldier & Scholar, Warrior & Writer, Husband & Historian, Father & Freemason. Since the early '80s, Warbard has been a pen name for Shelby Chandler who is a historian and has made a home for his wife and four daughters in the area of Fredericksburg, Virginia. more…

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