The Rose of Wreaths is a poetic riddle concerning someone recently retired, originating in The Pincers of Moving. 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 onomatopoeia is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures and they use the same placement of allusions. Each line has six feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even. Every line of the poem has an initial caesura. The second line of the tercet reverses the word order of the first line. The third line of the tercet presents a different view of the subject of the second line. The first line is intended to make an assertion. The second line is intended to make a counter-assertion. The third line is intended to synthesize previous ideas.