The Red-diamond Earthenware is a solemn poetic form concerning mining, originating in The Insignia of Socks. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. The Red-diamond Earthenware is always written from the perspective of the author. Use of simile is characteristic of the form. 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 third line of the tercet shares the underlying meaning of the first line. The second line of the tercet presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The second line of the tercet must expand the idea of the first line. The first line is intended to make an assertion. The second line is intended to make a counter-assertion. The third line is intended to synthesize previous ideas. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AAB. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.