The Dyes of Color is a dramatic poetic form intended to express pleasure with light, originating in The Sightless Procedure. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is three thirteen-line stanzas. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning and they reverse grammatical structures. The sixth line of each stanza presents a different view of the subject of the fourth line. The eleventh line of each stanza must expand the idea of the fifth line.