The Adorable Luxuries is a poetic riddle intended to complain about a chosen subject, originating in The Wickedness of Trouble. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single sexain. Use of internal rhyme, consonance and simile is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines sometimes have reversed word orders. The sixth line of the sexain uses the same placement of allusions as the first line. The third line of the sexain presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is A1AA1A, where numbers indicate a refrain.