The Blood-amaranth-grain of Hemp-seeds is a poetic riddle intended to praise someone recently deceased, originating in The Wills of Bottling. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quintain. Use of consonance and metaphor is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures. The fifth line of the quintain must expand the idea of the fourth line. The first line has seven syllables. The second line has four syllables. The third line has six syllables. The fourth line has four syllables. The fifth line has four syllables. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABABB.