The Crested Potter is a poetic narrative intended to teach a moral lesson concerning The Crested, originating in The Chromite of Loyalty. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of elision is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. Each line has four feet with a tone pattern of uneven-uneven. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The second line of the tercet has the same grammatical structure as the first line. The second line of the tercet must expand the idea of the first line.