The Melanite Midnight-blue is a poetic narrative intended to praise night, originating in The Longing Country. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning, they are required to maintain phrasing and they reverse grammatical structures. Each line has five syllables. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The first line has a medial caesura.