The Dark-brown of Mint-green is a poetic riddle intended to praise Qoped Glitterwhites the Galactic Pale-chestnut, originating in The Roguish Hierarchy. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has six syllables. The second line of the couplet presents a different view of the subject of the first line.