The Evidence of Puzzling

The Evidence of Puzzling is a solemn poetic form concerning the past, originating in The Liberty of Lieges. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: a line, a tercet and another two tercets. Use of consonance, epenthesis and allegory is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing, they use the same placement of allusions and they reverse grammatical structures. Each line has fourteen syllables.

• The first part is intended to describe the subject of the poem.
• The second part is intended to develop the previous idea. Certain lines present different views of the same subject. The third line of the tercet must expand the idea of the second line.
• The third part is intended to renounce. Certain lines present different views of the same subject. The third line of each tercet must expand the idea of the second line.

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