The Deliberate Classmate

The Deliberate Classmate is a poetic narrative concerning religion, originating in The Fallacious Nightwing of Ridges. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: a septet, a couplet and two quintains. Use of alliteration and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning.

• The first part is intended to complain about the subject of the poem. Certain lines present different views of the same subject. The sixth line of the septet uses the same placement of allusions as the fifth line. The fifth line of the septet must expand the idea of the first line. It has lines with three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic trimeter).
• The second part is intended to develop the previous idea. Certain lines present different views of the same subject. The second line of the couplet uses the same placement of allusions as the first line. The second line of the couplet must expand the idea of the first line. It has lines with three feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-long (quantitative cretic trimeter).
• The third part is intended to move away from previous ideas. Certain lines use the same placement of allusions and present different views of the same subject. The fifth line of each quintain must expand the idea of the second line. It has lines with three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic trimeter).

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