The Plan of Textbooks

The Plan of Textbooks is a poetic narrative intended to teach a moral lesson, originating in The Staggering Table. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: a tercet, another three tercets and another tercet. Use of assonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning.

• The first part concerns the past. Certain lines have similar grammatical structures and present different views of the same subject. It has lines with six syllables.
• The second part concerns current events. Certain lines present different views of the same subject. The third line of each tercet has the same grammatical structure as the second line. It has lines with two syllables.
• The third part concerns the future. Certain lines have similar grammatical structures. The third line of the tercet presents a different view of the subject of the first line. It has lines with eight syllables.

Events