Among mammals, stoats and weasels have been mentioned as likely allies, in this batrachomyomachy where the frogs are men, but the alliance, certainly in the case of stoats, would prove dangerous.

Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.]

In strophe D, the repetition of the stem אבל produces alliteration and can be described as adnomination (the repetition of words with the same root).

I told him I would be late and he had a hissyfit.