The Review of Kernels is a poetic riddle intended to beseech, originating in The Citizen of Confederacy. 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 assonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. Every line of the poem has a medial caesura. The first line concerns the past. It has seven syllables. The second line concerns current events. It has seven syllables.