The Heliotrope Saffron is a ribald poetic form intended to express pleasure with a chosen subject which grew out of the performances of The Mightinesses of Gold. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of assonance and simile is characteristic of the form. Each line has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-long (quantitative cretic trimeter).