The Spathe of Seeds is a solemn poetic form intended to express pleasure with current events, originating in The Heterosexual Patricide. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single couplet. Use of assonance and metaphor is characteristic of the form. Each line has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-short (quantitative dactylic trimeter). The first line must make use of consonance. The second line must make use of consonance.