The Summer of Leopards is a light poetic form intended to praise Lebeyu which grew out of the performances of The Trust of Heather. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning and they have similar grammatical structures. Each line has three syllables. The second line of the couplet is required to maintain the phrasing of the first line. The second line of the couplet presents a different view of the subject of the first line.