The Horned Counsellors is a solemn poetic form concerning war which grew out of the performances of The Pigmentary Wickednesses. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is divided into two couplets and four to eight tercets. Use of consonance is characteristic of the form. Each line has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic tetrameter).