The Sepulchral Suicide is a solemn poetic form concerning death originally devised by the mer Orku Warmongeringrobbed. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: a line, a sexain and two couplets. Use of assonance, ambiguity and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning and they sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has nine syllables.