The Oracular Laces is a poetic riddle intended to beseech, 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 tercet. Each line has four feet with a tone pattern of uneven-uneven. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The second line of the tercet contrasts the underlying meaning of the first line. The first line concerns the past. The second line concerns current events. The third line concerns the future. It must make use of assonance.