The Paradox of Mooting is a dramatic poetic form concerning religion, originating in The Fallacious Nightwing of Ridges. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of alliteration is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. Each line has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-short (quantitative dactylic tetrameter). The third line of the tercet is required to maintain the phrasing of the second line. The third line of the tercet must expand the idea of the second line. The first line is intended to make an assertion. The second line is intended to make a counter-assertion. The third line is intended to synthesize previous ideas.