Analysis of Enchanting
Keith Lankford 1964 (AL)
Words sweeping pages
Often casting spells
Cursing the air around them
If cursive is used well
Calling
Judges Juries
All rise even the dead
Bailiff Baah present to us
The summoned one he pled
Gates
They slowly open
Pass through enter, dwell
The words used in court
Are not for you used well
Never even knowing
You to them as well
are a
Sacrificial Lamb
The Latin way it’s Spelled
A sheep
A pawn
A sacrificial lamb
Person
But a thing
Felon
Oh the Felon
They are not laughing
Just as a man walking into a crowd, smiling and ushering greetings to ones around him
Just as a man walking into a crowd yelling and screaming at ones around him
The frequencies echoed in the words we speak cast themselves into the air
Received by those around us
All frequencies beings
Love and hate are spread quickly
Anger and sadness
noun: necromancy, magic, enchantment.
Gramarye (also spelled «gramary») comes from a Middle French word meaning «book of sorcery», but also «grammar» or «grammar book». Though modern English speakers don’t tend to mix their grammar with their sorcery, in medieval times the Latin word grammatica (and its lexical descendants in other languages) referred to (among other things) learning in general, which in those dark ages was understood by the unschooled populace of Europe to include magic and astrology.
Blacks law dictionary for Latin translations of common words found used in Roman Maritime and Common law
Scheme | XXXA BXCDC XEAXABAXFX XXF EBEEB GGXDXHD X H X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 10101 1001011 11111 10 1010 111001 1011011 010111 1 11010 11101 01101 111111 101010 11111 10 0101 010111 01 01 00101 10 101 10 1010 11110 11011001011001001011011 11011001011001011011 010010001111010101 0111011 110010 1011110 10010 110010010 11011110101110111001101011011101010111111011100001010101101100010010100011011011001001011101011011001101011000100 11100110010110111010100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,464 |
Words | 265 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 10, 3, 5, 7, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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A poem looking at the meaning of words- spells = spelling // curses = cursive
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