The Lilac of Mosses is a ribald poetic form concerning the hunt, originating in The Kingdom of Faith. 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 four feet with a tone pattern of even-uneven-even. Every line of the poem has a medial caesura. The first line is intended to praise the subject of the poem. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. The third line is intended to move away from previous ideas. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABB. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.