The Solid Cobaltite is a poetic narrative intended to express pleasure with mining, 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 a series of tercets. The Solid Cobaltite is always written from the perspective of a fictional poet. Use of alliteration and consonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures.