The Moot of Assumptions is a solemn poetic form intended to satirize a chosen subject, originating in The Inclusion of Bans. 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 internal rhyme is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. Each line has six syllables. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The second line of the couplet contrasts the underlying meaning of the first line. The first line concerns the past. The second line concerns the future.