The Lavender Wisp is a dramatic poetic form concerning a historical figure, originating in The Mahogany Mine. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is two septets. Use of symbolism 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 ten syllables. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBBCAA.