The Plan of Silkiness is a poetic form intended to amuse the audience concerning someone recently retired, originating in The Wild Seasons. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of assonance and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has ten syllables. The second line of the tercet reverses the word order of the first line.