The Playful Quinoa-grain is a solemn poetic form intended to express pleasure with alcoholic beverages, originating in The Confederacy of Dowels. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quatrain. Use of assonance and simile is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing and they sometimes have reversed word orders. The first line has eleven syllables. The second line has eight syllables. The third line has seven syllables. The fourth line has seven syllables. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBA.