The Hatchling of Cheeping is a solemn poetic form intended to describe Bospra the Youngster of Prey, originating in The Fiend of Evoking. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. Use of metaphor and simile is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has two feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic dimeter). The second line of the couplet presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The second line of the couplet must expand the idea of the first line. The first line must make use of vivid imagery.