The Dutiful Boot

The Dutiful Boot is a reflective poetic form concerning valor, originating in The Mahogany Mine. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into a line and two to four tercets. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. It has seven syllables.
• The second part is intended to undercut the previous assertion. Certain lines often share an underlying meaning and often contrast underlying meaning. The third line of each tercet must expand the idea of the second line. It has lines with ten syllables. It has a medial caesura in each line. The rhyme scheme repeating in each stanza is abb.

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