The Blooming Pomegranites of Beguiling

The Blooming Pomegranites of Beguiling is a light poetic form concerning 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 divided into three to five quintains and a line. Use of assonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has six syllables.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. Certain lines sometimes have reversed word orders. The fifth line of each quintain presents a different view of the subject of the second line. The rhyme scheme within each stanza is abcab.
• The second part is intended to undercut the previous assertion.

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