The Mathematical Coffee-cherry is a poetic riddle, originating in The Mother of Exfoliating. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning. Each line has eight syllables. Every line of the poem has a medial caesura. The third line of the tercet is required to maintain the phrasing of the first line. The second line of the tercet must expand the idea of the first line. The first line is intended to describe the past. The second line is intended to offer a different perspective concerning current events. The third line is intended to move away from previous ideas concerning the future. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABA.