You Must Be A Magician



You must be a magician with extraordinary power;
a master aesthetician causing beauty to flower.

You must be a sorcerer with telepathic accord;
a resourceful medium divining the unexplored.

You must be an enchanter with exquisite sleight of hand;
a marvelous conjurer building mirages in sand.

You must be a soothsayer with incredible foresight;
a mystical luminaire shining ethereal light.

You must be an oracle with revelations to share;
a visionary prophet making everyone aware.

You must be a theurgist with wonder-working talent;
a skillful fabricator turning craven to gallant.

You must be an alchemist with cryptic philosophy;
an eminent transformer transmuting in chemistry.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA BB CC DD EE FF GG
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 669
Words 104
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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