The Pallid Heavens is a poetic narrative intended to complain about death, originating in The Immortal Savagery. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single quintain. Use of metaphor and simile is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. The first line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic pentameter). It has an initial caesura. The second line must make use of alliteration. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic pentameter). It has a terminal caesura. The third line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic pentameter). It has an initial caesura. The fourth line must make use of alliteration. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic pentameter). The fifth line must make use of alliteration. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-long (quantitative cretic pentameter).