The Premiss of Imparting is a poetic riddle, originating in The Bottomless Geyser. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is two octets. Use of metaphor is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning. Each line has five syllables. Every line of the poem has a terminal caesura. The eighth line of each octet reverses the grammatical structure of the sixth line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABAABBAA.