The Precipice of Tigereyes is a dramatic poetic form intended to beseech minerals, originating in The Heart of Dripping. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quatrain. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning and they use the same placement of allusions. The second line of the quatrain reverses the word order of the first line. The first line has seven syllables. The second line has two syllables. The third line has nine syllables. The fourth line has fifteen syllables. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABAA.