The Basalt White-handed-gibbon is a poetic riddle intended to express pleasure with Anithamefive the Fire-agate Bull-shark, 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 three quintains. Use of assonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning. Each line has six feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic hexameter). Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBCA.