The Quiescent Amethyst is a dramatic poetic form intended to renounce, originating in The Bright Lies. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is three quintains. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning and they sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has ten syllables. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBBB.