The Luxurious Shingle

The Luxurious Shingle is a dramatic poetic form concerning alcoholic beverages which grew out of the performances of The Monsters of Telling. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into a couplet and two quatrains. Each line has three feet with a tone pattern of uneven-uneven.

• The first part is intended to make an assertion. Certain lines often contrast underlying meaning. The ending of each line of this part shares the same rhyme.
• The second part is intended to undercut the previous assertion. Certain lines often contrast underlying meaning. The rhyme scheme within each stanza is aabb.

Events

• In midspring of 173, The Luxurious Shingle was created by the dwarf Asob Dippedwalls in Veiledcombined after a nightmare