The Solvable Critique is a reflective poetic form, originating in The Chromite of Loyalty. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. Use of consonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions. The second line of the couplet is required to maintain the phrasing of the first line. The second line of the couplet reverses the word order of the first line. The second line of the couplet presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The first line is intended to describe the past. It has seven syllables. The second line is intended to move away from previous ideas concerning current events. It has seven syllables.