The East Wheels

The East Wheels is a poetic riddle concerning a journey originally devised by the goblin Gozru Toneseduced. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is divided into a series of quintains and five tercets. Use of epenthesis and symbolism is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning. Each line has seven feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even-even.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. Certain lines sometimes have reversed word orders and reverse grammatical structures. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is ABBAA.
• The second part is intended to undercut the previous assertion. The second line of each tercet reverses the word order of the first line. The third line of each tercet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is CCC.

Events

• In early spring of 157, The East Wheels was created by the goblin Gozru Toneseduced in Leapmountain