The Subjectivity of Misinterpreting is a dramatic poetic form, originating in The Civilian Nettles. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. The Subjectivity of Misinterpreting is always written from the perspective of a fictional poet. Use of assonance and metaphor is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. Each line has five syllables. The third line of the tercet is required to maintain the phrasing of the second line. The first line is intended to describe the past. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea concerning current events. The third line is intended to develop the previous idea concerning the future. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABB.