The Morbid Perishment

The Morbid Perishment is a dramatic poetic form concerning death, originating in The Curse of Clear-Garnets. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into a sexain and a line. Use of alliteration is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic trimeter).

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. Certain lines present different views of the same subject. The fifth line of the sexain contrasts the underlying meaning of the third line. The sixth line of the sexain uses the same placement of allusions as the fourth line.
• The second part is intended to invert the previous assertion.

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