The Brainchild of Doubting is a light poetic form concerning the past, originating in The Alone Bib. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into a septet and two tercets. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has four feet with a tone pattern of even-uneven. Every line of the poem has a terminal caesura.