The Anthropologist of Tutoring is a ribald poetic form, originating in The Clocks of Disloyalty. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single tercet. Use of elision is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures. Each line has seven syllables. The third line of the tercet is required to maintain the phrasing of the second line. The second line of the tercet must expand the idea of the first line. The first line is intended to describe the past. The second line is intended to offer a different perspective concerning current events. The third line is intended to offer a different perspective concerning the future. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABA.