The Outing of Raspberries is a poetic narrative intended to teach a moral lesson concerning alcoholic beverages, originating in The Faded Petticoat. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is numerous series of nine-line stanzas. Use of vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures. The eighth line of each stanza presents a different view of the subject of the sixth line.