The Prurient Lesson

The Prurient Lesson is a poetic narrative concerning current events, originating in The Spine of Hives. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: a couplet, another couplet and another couplet. Use of simile is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning and they have similar grammatical structures. Each line has ten syllables. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. to beseech

• The first part is intended . Certain lines are required to maintain phrasing and sometimes have reversed word orders. The second line of the couplet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The ending of each line of this part shares the same rhyme.
• The second part is intended to develop the previous idea. Certain lines are required to maintain phrasing and reverse grammatical structures. The second line of the couplet reverses the word order of the first line. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is AA.
• The third part is intended to move away from previous ideas. The second line of the couplet is required to maintain the phrasing of the first line. The second line of the couplet reverses the word order of the first line. The second line of the couplet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is BB.

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