The Lone Overbid is a poetic form intended to express grief over a journey originally devised by the serpentfolk Uxosla Gloatcotton-Boll. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quintain. The Lone Overbid is always written from the perspective of the author. Use of alliteration, consonance, metaphor and simile 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 two feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic dimeter). Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The fifth line of the quintain has the same grammatical structure as the first line.