[2] The serpent had a head at each end of its body and therefore was able to move forwards and backwards.
In its simplest form the amphisbaenic rhyme consists of the same word spelled backwards (step/pets).
Villa refers to this backwards rhyme scheme as "reverse consonance" rather than amphisbaenic.
Villa accused Wilson of plagiarizing this rhyme scheme, naming it amphisbaenic in order to evade giving credit to the earlier work, "Have Come, Am Here".
This controversy was met with a reply from Wilson stating that he has never read any of Villa's work.