The East Price is a dramatic poetic form intended to express pleasure with trade, originating in The Humid Volcano. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single line. The East Price is always written from the perspective of the author. Use of ambiguity and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. The poem has three feet with an accent pattern of stressed-unstressed (qualitative trochaic trimeter). The poem has an initial caesura.