The Ego of Martyring is a dramatic poetic form intended to express pleasure with Mosnu, originating in The Infamy of Whiplashes. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single couplet. Use of symbolism is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. Each line has seven syllables. The first line has an initial caesura.