The Embraced Glosses is a poetic riddle concerning someone recently deceased, originating in The Persuasive Sin. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into a series of eleven-line stanzas and a series of septets. Use of internal rhyme, consonance, symbolism, metaphor and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures and they use the same placement of allusions. Each line has three syllables.