The Match of Confidence is a light poetic form concerning immortality which grew out of the performances of The Heroic Waxes. 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 metaphor is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines reverse grammatical structures. The second line of the couplet shares the underlying meaning of the first line. The second line of the couplet contrasts the underlying meaning of the first line. The first line is intended to make a concession. It has nine syllables. It has a medial caesura. The second line is intended to make an assertion. It has eight syllables. It has a terminal caesura.