The Solar Embankment is a solemn poetic form intended to teach a moral lesson concerning Ebimipo, 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 a single couplet. Use of antanaclasis, metaphor, simile and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures and they use the same placement of allusions. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme, though the rhyming doesn't have to be perfect. The second line of the couplet must expand the idea of the first line. The first line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic pentameter). The second line has six feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic hexameter).