The Cognitive Cashew is a poetic riddle concerning a historical figure, originating in The Reprobate of Blustering. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into three distinct parts: two couplets, a quatrain and another two to six couplets. The Cognitive Cashew is always written from the perspective of a relative of the author. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning and they are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has six syllables.