The Effluent of Protrusions is a solemn poetic form intended to beseech depravity, originating in The Liberty of Lieges. 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 have similar grammatical structures. Every line of the poem has a medial caesura. The first line has ten syllables. The second line has nine syllables. The third line has sixteen syllables.