The Knowing Pregnancy is a solemn poetic form concerning someone recently retired originally devised by the dwarf Fath Pagednourish. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: a sexain, another sexain and another sexain. Use of consonance is characteristic of the form. 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 five syllables.