The Lake of Summers is a ribald poetic form intended to express pleasure with the hunt, originating in The Confederacy of Fur. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quintain. Use of simile is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. The first line must make use of epenthesis. It has four feet with a tone pattern of even-uneven. It has a terminal caesura. The second line must make use of epenthesis. It has four feet with a tone pattern of uneven-uneven. It has a terminal caesura. The third line has four feet with a tone pattern of even-even-uneven. It has an initial caesura. The fourth line has four feet with a tone pattern of even-uneven. The fifth line has four feet with a tone pattern of even-uneven-even. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AAABB. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.