The Raven of Hyenas is a dramatic poetic form intended to express pleasure with Amun, originating in The Chronic Barbarity. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single quintain. Use of consonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Every line of the poem has a terminal caesura. The fourth line of the quintain uses the same placement of allusions as the first line. The first line has seven syllables. The second line has ten syllables. The third line has ten syllables. The fourth line has ten syllables. The fifth line has seven syllables.