The Peremptory Prime-number is a solemn poetic form intended to express grief over war, originating in The Infamy of Weaklings. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is two sexains. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning and they are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has eight syllables. The third line of each sexain uses the same placement of allusions as the first line. The fourth line of each sexain presents a different view of the subject of the second line.