The Forethought of Gorillas is a ribald poetic form concerning someone recently deceased, originating in The Glamorous Asparagus. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into four tercets and another one tercet. Use of consonance and simile is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura.