The Song of Veneration is a dramatic poetic form intended to satirize someone recently retired, 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 two to six quintains. The Song of Veneration is always written from the perspective of an animal. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing and they reverse grammatical structures. The second line of each quintain uses the same placement of allusions as the first line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABAAC. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.