The Bud of Wind is a ribald poetic form intended to teach a moral lesson concerning The Beans of Autumn, originating in The Lilac of Praise. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. The Bud of Wind is always written from the perspective of a traveler. Use of vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Each line has twelve syllables. The third line of the tercet uses the same placement of allusions as the second line. The first line must make use of assonance. The third line must make use of assonance.