The Covert Forest is a ribald poetic form intended to describe Elosmust the Nights of Fog, originating in The Reprobate of Blustering. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. The Covert Forest is always written from the perspective of the author. Use of assonance and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Each line has ten syllables. Every line of the poem has a terminal caesura. The third line of the tercet is required to maintain the phrasing of the second line. The third line of the tercet must expand the idea of the second line.