The Curses of Hell is a poetic narrative intended to describe Maga, originating in The Kingdom of Faith. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quatrain. Use of assonance and consonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. Each line has eleven syllables. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The fourth line of the quatrain presents a different view of the subject of the third line. The second line of the quatrain must expand the idea of the first line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AAAB.