The Oracle of Ensorceling is a solemn poetic form, originating in The Amusing Nations. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures and they sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has eight syllables. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The first line is intended to describe the past. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea concerning current events. The third line is intended to move away from previous ideas concerning the future. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABB.