The Strategic Mathematicians is a poetic form intended to renounce the past, originating in The Fusible Sabres. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single tercet. The Strategic Mathematicians is always written from the perspective of the author. Use of consonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. The first line has four feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even-even. It has a terminal caesura. The second line has five feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even-even. It has a terminal caesura. The third line has three feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even-even.