The Consanguineous Inheritance is a poetic form intended to teach a moral lesson concerning family, originating in The Roguish Hierarchy. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single quintain. Use of antanaclasis is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions. Each line has eight syllables. Every line of the poem has a terminal caesura.