The Riddled Champion is a ribald poetic form intended to express grief over war, originating in The Disloyalty of Blushing. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is two tercets. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning. Each line has six syllables. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme.