The Enlightenment of Riddles is a dramatic poetic form, originating in The Sightless Procedure. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. Use of metaphor is characteristic of the form. The second line of the couplet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The first line is intended to describe the past. It has nine syllables. The second line is intended to offer a different perspective concerning current events. It has ten syllables.