The Sweetness of Songs is a dramatic poetic form intended to make an apology which grew out of the performances of The Silken Wings. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. Use of assonance and metaphor is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has ten syllables. The second line of the couplet must expand the idea of the first line. The first line concerns the past. The second line concerns current events.