The Number of Silkiness

The Number of Silkiness is a dramatic poetic form intended to complain about a chosen subject originally devised by the dwarf Kikrost Wirefog. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into two couplets and three tercets. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. Each line has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-short-long (quantitative anapaestic trimeter).

• The first part concerns the past. The second line of each couplet must expand the idea of the first line.
• The second part concerns current events. The third line of each tercet must expand the idea of the second line.

Events

• In early autumn of 155, The Number of Silkiness was created by the dwarf Kikrost Wirefog in Lessonmetal after a dream