The Memories of Knowing is a poetic narrative intended to beseech a historical figure, originating in The Bottomless Geyser. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single tercet. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has ten syllables. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The third line of the tercet presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The second line must make use of alliteration. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABA. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.