The Naturalistic Decision is a reflective poetic form intended to describe a historical figure, originating in The Grand Confederations. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is five quatrains. Use of consonance is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning and they sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has nine syllables. Every line of the poem has a terminal caesura. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABAA.