The Superior Raid is a light poetic form concerning war, originating in The Infamy of Whiplashes. 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 assonance 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 couplet presents a different view of the subject of the first line. The first line is intended to make an assertion. It has nine syllables. The second line is intended to invert the previous assertion. It has eight syllables.