The East Strangers is a poetic form concerning a journey, originating in The Confederacy of Fur. 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 and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The second line of the couplet has the same grammatical structure as the first line. The first line is intended to make a concession. It has six feet with a tone pattern of even-even-uneven. The second line is intended to make an assertion. It has three feet with a tone pattern of even-even-uneven.