The Prey of Widowing is a poetic riddle intended to amuse the audience concerning death originally devised by the goblin Ekxosmobsast Toyavarices. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single quintain. The first line has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic trimeter). The second line must make use of alliteration. It has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic trimeter). The third line must make use of consonance and metaphor. It has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic trimeter). The fourth line has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic trimeter). The fifth line has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short (quantitative trochaic trimeter).