The Elementary Cognation is a dramatic poetic form concerning the future, originating in The Freeman of Supplying. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single couplet. Use of vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The second line of the couplet presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The second line of the couplet must expand the idea of the first line. The first line is intended to make a concession. It has fifteen syllables. The second line is intended to make an assertion. It has nine syllables.