The Strategic Scribe is a poetic riddle intended to describe inspiration originally devised by the human Bemta Jumpedbite. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single quintain. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning. Each line has ten syllables. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AABAA. The rhyme at the end of the second line doesn't need to match perfectly.