The Marketable Youngster is a solemn poetic form concerning family, originating in The Turquoise of Revolutions. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single line. The Marketable Youngster is always written from the perspective of a traveler. Use of synchysis and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. The poem has five syllables. The poem has an initial caesura.