The Success of Gripping is a solemn poetic form intended to amuse the audience concerning immortality, originating in The Infamy of Whiplashes. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, ambiguity and vivid imagery 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 line has eight feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic octameter). The second line has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic tetrameter). The third line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic pentameter).