The Relentless Crux

The Relentless Crux is a poetic narrative concerning war, originating in The Glumprong of Tongs. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into an octet and a sexain. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. The fifth line of the octet contrasts the underlying meaning of the second line. It has lines with two feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-short-long (quantitative anapaestic dimeter).
• The second part is intended to invert the previous assertion. The fifth line of the sexain contrasts the underlying meaning of the second line. It has lines with two feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic dimeter).

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