The Garland of Blossoms

The Garland of Blossoms is a poetic form concerning the future, originating in The Coati of Shedding. 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 sexain, a quatrain and a line. Use of consonance and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Each line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-short-long (quantitative anapaestic pentameter).

• The first part is light and intended to teach a moral lesson. Certain lines often contrast underlying meaning. It has a medial caesura in each line. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is AABBCC. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.
• The second part is a riddle and intended to reflect on previous ideas. The second line of the quatrain contrasts the underlying meaning of the first line. It has a terminal caesura in each line. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is CACC.
• The third part is solemn and intended to offer a different perspective.

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