The Raw Reedgrass is a poetic riddle intended to beseech Niwar Anglercave-crocodile the Wintertime Deer-people, originating in The Ceaseless Fingertip-Dominator. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a series of octets. Use of assonance 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. Every line of the poem has a medial caesura. The eighth line of each octet must expand the idea of the fifth line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AABBBBAB.