The Parable of Quandaries is a solemn poetic form concerning religion, originating in The Cobaltite of Redoubles. 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 symbolism and metaphor is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures. Each line has ten syllables. The second line of the tercet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The first line is intended to describe the subject of the poem. It must make use of consonance. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. It must make use of consonance. The third line is intended to renounce.