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Can someone tell me what the deal is, not just with Wiccans, but also with all sorts of generally not that fluffy Pagans, and the gratuitous rhyming in spells? Why do we think that works? I mean, i get rhythm, specificty, musicality, and making shit easier to remember, but COME ON. Say what you will about Crowley, but among other things, you've got to give him that he's not a gratuitous, or Hallmark-style rhymer.

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Rhyming imparts power into a statement as does creating poetry in general. However, bad poetry and trite rhymes do not. Being nothing of a poet, I avoid such things and attempt to instead go for more of an impassioned public speaking style of ritual. The point is to make the words both important and distinct. Sadly, some people do not realize that hallmark cards are neither.