As noted earlier, the poem Samuttakote is traditionally divided into three partม with each part attributed to a different pote. And while the authorship of these three sections has been questioned in recent years, this tripartite arrangement is useful for a discussion of the aesthetics of the poem. The first part of the poem, attributed to Maharatchakhru, begins with the traditional salutation to the Buddha, continues through the description of the seventeenth-century entertainments, the elephant hunt, Samuttakote’s meeting with Phiniumadi, their separation, the battle of the suitors, and finally the marriage between Samuttakote and Phiniumadi. In many respects, this is probably the most famous part of the poem. Ignoring the arcane lexical items, this section is actually a rather straightforward narrative. The syntactic patterns are relatively followed, and internal rhyme sequences add a pleasing rhythm, but they do not dominant to the point that the narrative is obscured. In the second part of the poem, most of this changes.