The repetitive sections of the Kirta Epic provide one perspective for studying scribal education at Ugarit. Scholars have relied on these repetitions to help reconstruct missing lacunae but a comparison of the these sections shows that when Kirta awakens to carry out the instructions from his dream, a number of tri-colons are shortened to bi-colons and several bi-colons are completely absent. Scholarship has mostly studied these differences on a case-by-case basis and as a result, they largely attribute these additions and deletions to accidental omissions or variants. In contrast, upon a closer reading of the Kirta Epic, it makes more sense to see these differences as deliberate structuring. In short, the longer tri-colons and bi-colons occur in Kirta’s dream whereas several of these are shortened in Kirta’s actions. This structuring implies that the actor deviates from the original instruction. In short, the subtle structure of the epic enables the careful reader to see the changes in the story and perceive the mis-actions of the characters. Specifically, the intentions of El are contrasted against the actual actions of Kirta creating a tension in the plot. In this way, we see that Kirta is bound to fail when he acts, and indeed he does. If the structuring in this epic is valid, it cannot be accidental and points to a sophisticated literary rhetoric employed by Ugaritic scribes. Lastly, implications for scribal schools at Ugarit will be outlined.