The Solvable Lime

The Solvable Lime is a solemn poetic form, originating in The Practical Atrocity. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: an octet, a line and another six to eight octets. Use of simile is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. The eighth line of the octet is required to maintain the phrasing of the first line. It has lines with four feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-long (quantitative cretic tetrameter).
• The second part is intended to make a counter-assertion. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-long (quantitative cretic pentameter).
• The third part is intended to synthesize previous ideas. The eighth line of each octet is required to maintain the phrasing of the first line. It has lines with five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-long (quantitative cretic pentameter).

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