The Persuaders of Blossoming is a poetic form concerning immortality, originating in The Lantern of Nails. 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 vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning and they have similar grammatical structures. The third line of the tercet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The third line of the tercet presents a different view of the subject of the second line. The first line is ribald and intended to make an assertion. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-short (quantitative dactylic pentameter). The second line is solemn and intended to make a counter-assertion. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic pentameter). The third line is light and intended to synthesize previous ideas. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short (quantitative trochaic pentameter).