The Saffron Azure Aquamarine is a poetic riddle concerning music, originating in The Amusing Nations. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a series of sexains. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning and they sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has four syllables. Every line of the poem has a medial caesura. The fifth line of each sexain must expand the idea of the third line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AABBAB.