The Apricot of Lemons is a light poetic form concerning someone's character, originating in The Citizen of Confederacy. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of consonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions. Each line has ten syllables. The third line of the tercet must expand the idea of the first line. The first line is intended to express grief over the subject of the poem. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. The third line is intended to move away from previous ideas.