The Saffron of Bewilderment is a dramatic poetic form, originating in The Persuasive Sin. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single tercet. Use of alliteration, consonance and simile is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions and they sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic trimeter). The third line of the tercet has the same grammatical structure as the second line. The third line of the tercet must expand the idea of the first line. The first line is intended to describe the subject of the poem. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. The third line is intended to renounce. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABA.