The Logical Citron is a poetic riddle intended to describe current events which grew out of the performances of The Blocks of Slandering. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures. The second line of the couplet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The first line has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic tetrameter). It has a terminal caesura. The second line has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-short-long (quantitative anapaestic tetrameter). It has a terminal caesura.