The Blooming Strategy is a poetic narrative intended to make an apology, originating in The Intrinsic Hemp-Stalk. 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 simile and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. Each line has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-short (quantitative dactylic tetrameter). The second line of the tercet presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The first line concerns the past. The second line concerns current events. The third line concerns the future. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AAB. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.