The Sentience of Deducing is a poetic narrative intended to amuse the audience concerning current events, originating in The Avarice of Improving. 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 alliteration is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines sometimes have reversed word orders. The second line of the tercet is required to maintain the phrasing of the first line. The first line has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-short (quantitative dactylic tetrameter). The second line has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-long (quantitative cretic trimeter). The third line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic pentameter).