The Accuracy of Studying is a ribald poetic form intended to express grief over religion, originating in The Chronic Barbarity. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quintain. Use of assonance is characteristic of the form. The first line must make use of metonymy. It has three syllables. The second line has eight syllables. The third line has five syllables. The fourth line must make use of metonymy. It has two syllables. The fifth line has seven syllables.