Her style is alternately impressionistic and harsh, incantatory and propulsive. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhythm may convey musical or incantatory effects. Her poetry is known for its often incantatory use of rhythm, meter, and poetic form. Malcolm Laurence Cameron states that chanting the poem aloud results in a "marvellously incantatory effect". This section continues into a spoken, arrhythmic incantatory solo with background. Several runic inscriptions are also nonsensical by nature, being used for magical or incantatory purposes. Sayers attempted to assist the actors by using "formal and incantatory" speech. It's as if she's inventing her own language, which is incantatory, dense, and lush.