The Bambara-groundnut of Birdseeds is a poetic form intended to praise a lover, originating in The Unheeded Courageous Plump-Helmet-Fungi. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single octet. Use of epenthesis and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning. Each line has seven syllables. The fifth line of the octet uses the same placement of allusions as the third line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABAAABBA.