The Hermaphroditic White-mountain-heather is a poetic narrative concerning the concept of nature, originating in The Obsidian of Apples. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is five octets. Use of assonance and symbolism is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning. The fourth line of each octet has the same grammatical structure as the third line. The third line of each octet must expand the idea of the first line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABACCDBC.