The Controllers of Right is a ribald poetic form intended to satirize immortality, originating in The Passionate Scourge. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single sexain. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning. The fifth line of the sexain reverses the word order of the fourth line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBAAB.