The Library of Smiles is a dramatic poetic form which grew out of the performances of The Azure Notches. 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 consonance and simile is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning, they use the same placement of allusions and they sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has five syllables. The first line is intended to describe the past. The second line is intended to reflect on previous ideas concerning current events.