The Meandering Gloss is a reflective poetic form intended to express pleasure with a chosen subject, originating in The Unbridled Dale. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single couplet. Use of simile 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 six syllables. The first line concerns the past. It must make use of ambiguity. The second line concerns the future.