The Watchful Silken Amethyst is a reflective poetic form concerning the future, originating in The Nations of Competing. 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 often contrast underlying meaning. Each line has five feet with a tone pattern of even-uneven-even. The third line of the tercet shares the underlying meaning of the second line. The third line of the tercet must expand the idea of the second line. The first line is intended to describe the subject of the poem. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. The third line is intended to teach a moral lesson. It must make use of assonance. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AAB.