The Poetic Strategy is a reflective poetic form intended to make an apology concerning someone recently deceased which grew out of the performances of The Sandaled Boats. 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 epenthesis is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions. The first line must make use of assonance. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic pentameter). The second line must make use of assonance. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic pentameter).