The Peroration

trigger

"'The ship is sound. The Operator is rested. The wind is fair. The tide is right. Recommendation: Launch.'"

what it is

Register shift from analysis to oratory at section close. 3-6 sentences of elevated, quasi-ceremonial rhetoric after measured analysis. The epigrammatic closure is the individual brick; the peroration is the entire arch.

how to detect

Read only the final paragraph of a section. If it sounds like a commencement address while the preceding paragraphs sound like analysis, it's a peroration.

instead

End where the analysis ends. Do not switch into speechwriter mode for the final paragraph.

refs

• wake:docs/internal/archive/round-tables/round-table-L2-2026-02-24.md