The Youth of Haranguing is a poetic narrative concerning immortality, originating in The Writ of Prodigies. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. The Youth of Haranguing is always written from the perspective of the author. Use of synchysis is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has nine syllables. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The second line of the couplet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The first line is intended to make a concession. The second line is intended to make an assertion.