A jig can be a chosen stanza length, a fixed question, a recurring grammatical pattern, or a rule for arranging images. It helps the poet produce variation within constraint, much as a workshop template positions each piece for accurate work. The jig should support attention rather than replace it. In a sequence, a repeated formal jig may expose how each scene differs from the last; in a short lyric, it can create enough regularity for a small deviation to become meaningful.

A jig provides repeatable guidance, much like a pattern used in skilled making. In poetry, it might be a fixed stanza length, a recurring syntax, a question-and-answer sequence, or a rule for selecting images. A jig can free invention by reducing some decisions, but it should not make every line predictable. Compare it with a poetic form, refrain, constraint, or procedural method.