The Beige Visionary is a poetic form concerning the future, originating in The Wickedness of Trouble. 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. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures and they sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-short (quantitative trochaic tetrameter). The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme. The second line of the couplet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The first line is intended to express grief over the subject of the poem. The second line is intended to refuse consolation.