The Master of Maws is a ribald poetic form intended to express grief over war which grew out of the performances of The Horns of Crafting. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a series of quatrains. Use of vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning. Each line has five syllables.