The Chrysoprase Green-jade is a ribald poetic form concerning mining, originating in The Inclusion of Bans. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions. Each line has eight syllables. The first line is intended to describe the subject of the poem. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. It must make use of assonance. The third line is intended to renounce. It must make use of assonance. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABA.