The Poison of Hexes is a poetic riddle intended to beseech Pob, originating in The Responsible Empires. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The second line of the couplet has the same grammatical structure as the first line. The first line has five feet with a tone pattern of uneven-uneven. It has an initial caesura. The second line must make use of elision. It has five feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even-uneven. It has an initial caesura.