The Magpie of Expiring is a light poetic form intended to express pleasure with death, originating in The Conglomerate of Hamlets. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single couplet. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has seven syllables. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The second line of the couplet must expand the idea of the first line.