The Opaque Cipher is a poetic riddle intended to express pleasure with Ledungu, originating in The Impenitence of Jabbers. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single quatrain. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing and they reverse grammatical structures. The third line of the quatrain reverses the word order of the second line. The first line has eight syllables. The second line has two syllables. The third line has ten syllables. The fourth line has eight syllables.