The Strategic Description is a poetic narrative concerning someone recently deceased, originating in The Equality of Foreknowledges. 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 simile is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning. The first line is intended to make an assertion. It has nine syllables. The second line is intended to undercut the previous assertion. It must make use of elision and ambiguity. It has four syllables.