The Microcline Groundhog-people is a ribald poetic form concerning the hunt, originating in The Infamy of Whiplashes. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of alliteration is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The first line is intended to describe the subject of the poem. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-short-long (quantitative anapaestic pentameter). The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. It has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-short-long (quantitative anapaestic tetrameter). The third line is intended to renounce. It has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-short-long (quantitative anapaestic trimeter).