The Morality of Rights

The Morality of Rights is a reflective poetic form concerning consolation, originating in The Grand Confederations. 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 internal rhyme and symbolism is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning, they are required to maintain phrasing and they have similar grammatical structures. Each line has five syllables. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The third line of the tercet contrasts the underlying meaning of the second line. The first line is intended to describe the subject of the poem. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. The third line is intended to renounce. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABB.

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