The Architectonic Plots

The Architectonic Plots is a ribald poetic form intended to teach a moral lesson, originating in The Lawmaker of Peanuts. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: a brief verse paragraph, a quatrain and three tercets.

• The first part concerns the past.
• The second part concerns current events. The fourth line of the quatrain has the same grammatical structure as the first line. The fourth line of the quatrain must expand the idea of the second line. It has an initial caesura in each line. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is AABA.
• The third part concerns the future. Certain lines have similar grammatical structures. The third line of each tercet must expand the idea of the first line. It has a terminal caesura in each line. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is CAC.

Events