The Rose of Laboratories is a ribald poetic form, originating in The System of Gorillas. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. Use of internal rhyme, assonance and metaphor is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. Each line has eight syllables. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme, though the rhyme at the end of the first line doesn't need to match perfectly. The second line of the couplet uses the same placement of allusions as the first line. The first line is intended to describe the past. The second line is intended to move away from previous ideas concerning current events.