The East Guilds is a poetic riddle concerning a journey, originating in The Robust Berry. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of simile and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing, they sometimes have reversed word orders and they reverse grammatical structures. The first line is intended to describe the subject of the poem. It has eleven syllables. The second line is intended to develop the previous idea. It has seven syllables. The third line is intended to make an apology. It has eight syllables.