The Demonstrable Tactics is a poetic riddle concerning the future, originating in The Glamorous Asparagus. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single couplet. Use of internal rhyme, metaphor and juxtaposition is characteristic of the form. 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 second line of the couplet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The first line is intended to make a concession. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-short (quantitative dactylic pentameter). The second line is intended to make an assertion. It has three feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short-short (quantitative dactylic trimeter).