The Beloved Music is a ribald poetic form intended to complain about a chosen subject, originating in The Lantern of Nails. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is divided into a quatrain and another two quatrains. Use of vivid imagery 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 reverse grammatical structures. Each line has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short (quantitative trochaic trimeter).