The Interesting Slayer is a poetic form concerning war, originating in The Writ of Prodigies. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning and they sometimes have reversed word orders. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The first line is intended to make an assertion. It has eight syllables. It has an initial caesura. The second line is intended to invert the previous assertion. It has six syllables. It has a medial caesura.