The Asphyxiant Cemetery is a dramatic poetic form concerning death which grew out of the performances of The Enfeeblements of Rawness. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. The Asphyxiant Cemetery is always written from the perspective of a traveler. Each line has ten syllables. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The first line is intended to make a concession. The second line is intended to make an assertion. It must make use of internal rhyme.