The Prurient Monkey-pots is a solemn poetic form intended to express pleasure with someone recently deceased, 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 five to seven tercets. Use of ambiguity and juxtaposition is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions and they reverse grammatical structures. Each line has eight syllables. The third line of each tercet shares the underlying meaning of the second line. The third line of each tercet must expand the idea of the second line.