The Suicide of Cemeteries is a poetic form concerning death, originating in The Totem of Raising. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. The Suicide of Cemeteries is always written from the perspective of a fictional poet. Use of simile is characteristic of the form. The second line of the couplet contrasts the underlying meaning of the first line. The first line is intended to make an assertion. It has sixteen syllables. The second line is intended to invert the previous assertion. It has eight syllables.