The Fountains of Hugging is a poetic riddle intended to praise family, originating in The Confederacies of Habit. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quintain. The Fountains of Hugging is always written from the perspective of the author. Use of internal rhyme and simile is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. Each line has nine syllables. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AAAAB.