The Lyrical Truth is a poetic form concerning a specific place, originating in The Responsible Empires. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single sexain. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions. Each line has five syllables. The fifth line of the sexain contrasts the underlying meaning of the second line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AB11BC, where numbers indicate a refrain.