The Geological Persimmons is a poetic form intended to express grief over someone's character, 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 four quintains. Use of alliteration, metaphor and simile is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has seven syllables.