The Goldenrod Petal is a poetic form concerning a specific place, originating in The Union of Moments. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The third line of the tercet must expand the idea of the second line. The first line is intended to praise the subject of the poem. It must make use of vivid imagery. It has four feet with a tone pattern of even-even-uneven. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. It has three feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even. The third line is intended to move away from previous ideas. It must make use of vivid imagery. It has three feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even-uneven.