The Ponderable Plan is a solemn poetic form intended to express pleasure with a chosen subject, originating in The Impenitence of Jabbers. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is an extremely long series of quatrains. The Ponderable Plan is always written from the perspective of a fictional poet. Each line has seven syllables. The second line of each quatrain has the same grammatical structure as the first line. The fourth line of each quatrain must expand the idea of the third line.