The Venerable Sheens is a light poetic form intended to renounce someone's character, originating in The Infamous Monster. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quintain. Use of alliteration and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Each line has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-short-long (quantitative anapaestic tetrameter). The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABCCA.