They feature a dialogue or a debate involving two contenders, usually cast as inarticulate beings such as particular objects, plants, animals, and so forth.
[2] Nevertheless, some remarkable phraseological continuity is attested, such as between Hoe and Plough with the Akkadian Palm and Vine, even though two millennia separate their composition.
[4] Akkadian disputations, despite being more recent than their Sumerian counterpart, have significantly more fragmentary manuscripts.
The structure is as follows:[8] The prologue introduces the story from the beginning of time and presents a cosmogony explaining the origins of the cosmos, and in this context, alludes or foreshadows the rivalry between the two contenders even from this early period.
Some probably did, however the two Akkadian poems whose adjudication scenes are preserved, Series of the Fox and Nissaba and Wheat, do not end in such a manner.