The Will of Agnostics is a poetic riddle concerning the future, originating in The Inefficient Evils. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. The Will of Agnostics is always written from the perspective of a soldier. Use of metaphor is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning. The second line of the tercet uses the same placement of allusions as the first line. The first line is intended to make an assertion. It has eight syllables. The second line is intended to make a counter-assertion. It has five syllables. The third line is intended to synthesize previous ideas. It has seven syllables.