The Tutorial Nuts is a solemn poetic form intended to amuse the audience, originating in The Impartial Great-White-Shark. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. Use of internal rhyme, alliteration, consonance, symbolism and simile is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme, though the rhyming doesn't have to be perfect. The first line concerns the past. It has fourteen syllables. The second line concerns the future. It has thirteen syllables.