The Wooden Field is a ribald poetic form intended to teach a moral lesson concerning nature, originating in The Gullies of Boarding. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quintain. Use of metaphor is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has ten syllables.