The Ponderable Anthropologist

The Ponderable Anthropologist is a light poetic form concerning the past, originating in The Turquoise of Revolutions. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: a sexain, two to three couplets and a quintain. Use of vivid imagery 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 part is intended to describe the subject of the poem. Certain lines reverse grammatical structures. The fifth line of the sexain shares the underlying meaning of the third line. The fifth line of the sexain presents a different view of the subject of the second line. It has lines with seven syllables.
• The second part is intended to develop the previous idea. Certain lines often share an underlying meaning and present different views of the same subject. The second line of each couplet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. It has lines with eight syllables.
• The third part is intended to renounce. Certain lines reverse grammatical structures and present different views of the same subject. The fourth line of the quintain shares the underlying meaning of the first line. It has lines with five syllables.

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