The Chestnut of Fruits is a light poetic form intended to describe a lover, originating in The Grandparent of Tufts. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quintain. Use of assonance, epenthesis and juxtaposition is characteristic of the form. Each line has six syllables. The fourth line of the quintain contrasts the underlying meaning of the first line. The fourth line of the quintain has the same grammatical structure as the first line. The fourth line of the quintain must expand the idea of the second line. The second line must make use of ambiguity. The third line must make use of ambiguity. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AABBA.