The Yellow-Sand of Bone-Opals

The Yellow-sand of Bone-opals is a poetic narrative concerning mining, 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 divided into three distinct parts: two to three couplets, two tercets and a line. Use of assonance and ambiguity is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning. to beseech

• The first part is intended . The second line of each couplet reverses the word order of the first line. It has lines with seven syllables. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is AA.
• The second part is intended to reflect on previous ideas. The third line of each tercet reverses the word order of the second line. It has lines with nine syllables. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is BBB.
• The third part is intended to offer a different perspective. It has nine syllables.

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