The Flaxen Seeds is a ribald poetic form concerning nature originally devised by the elf Niri Mothgorges. 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 metaphor is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has ten syllables. The second line of the tercet has the same grammatical structure as 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 praise the subject of the poem. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. The third line is intended to move away from previous ideas.