The Yearling of Youth is a poetic form intended to praise children, originating in The Portals of Strength. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. 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. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The first line has seven feet with an accent pattern of stressed-stressed (qualitative spondaic heptameter). The second line has three feet with an accent pattern of stressed-stressed (qualitative spondaic trimeter). The third line has five feet with an accent pattern of stressed-stressed (qualitative spondaic pentameter).