The Droplet of Skirts is a poetic riddle intended to complain about a lover, originating in The Ruthlessness of Arenas. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quatrain. Use of internal rhyme and alliteration is characteristic of the form. The third line of the quatrain presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The first line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-short-long (quantitative anapaestic pentameter). The second line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short (quantitative trochaic pentameter). The third line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short (quantitative trochaic pentameter). The fourth line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-short (quantitative dactylic pentameter). The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBB.