The Cemetery of Starvation is a poetic form intended to express pleasure with Desna Seancemaggots, originating in The Immortal Savagery. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is two to three octets. Use of consonance, metaphor and juxtaposition is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. The seventh line of each octet contrasts the underlying meaning of the fourth line.