The Exegetic Thought is a poetic narrative intended to complain about religion, originating in The Staggering Table. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a series of quatrains. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing, they have similar grammatical structures and they reverse grammatical structures. Each line has three feet with a tone pattern of even-uneven-even.