The Demantoid Baby-Toes-Succulents

The Demantoid Baby-toes-succulents is a poetic riddle intended to praise Ehigibsal, originating in The Regulation of Maize. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a series of thirteen-line stanzas. The Demantoid Baby-toes-succulents is always written from the perspective of the author. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has ten syllables. Every line of the poem has a terminal caesura. The eighth line of each stanza reverses the grammatical structure of the third line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBABBBBBBABA.

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