The Core of Brilliance is a dramatic poetic form intended to renounce, originating in The Focal Systems. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. The Core of Brilliance is always written from the perspective of the author. Use of internal rhyme, metaphor and 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. Each line has nine syllables. The first line concerns the past. The second line concerns current events. The third line concerns the future. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABA.