The Predecease of Driftwoods

The Predecease of Driftwoods is a solemn poetic form concerning death, 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 a series of quatrains and a sexain. Use of consonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions. Each line has three syllables.

• The first part is intended to make a concession. The third line of each quatrain must expand the idea of the second line. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is AAA1, where numbers indicate a refrain.
• The second part is intended to make an assertion. The fifth line of the sexain must expand the idea of the first line. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is BABBB1.

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