The Guildhall of Beginnings is a poetic riddle intended to express pleasure with family, originating in The Heterosexual Patricide. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is four tercets. Use of assonance is characteristic of the form. Each line has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-short (quantitative dactylic trimeter). Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The third line of each tercet presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The third line of each tercet must expand the idea of the second line.