The Question of Oranges

The Question of Oranges is a dramatic poetic form concerning someone recently deceased, originating in The Aware Rapacity. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is divided into a series of twelve-line stanzas and a series of nineteen-line stanzas. Each line has six syllables.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. Certain lines often share an underlying meaning.
• The second part is intended to undercut the previous assertion. The fifteenth line of each stanza shares the underlying meaning of the twelfth line.

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