The Skirt of Tresses is a dramatic poetic form intended to make an apology concerning current events originally devised by the night's soldier Coce Tresseddream. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is two to three sexains. Use of consonance is characteristic of the form. Each line has five feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even. The second line of each sexain presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBBBA.