The Riddle of Inquiries is a poetic form, 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: a line, a tercet and a quatrain. Use of assonance and symbolism is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures and they use the same placement of allusions. Each line has seven syllables. Every line of the poem has a terminal caesura.