The Just Controls is a poetic form intended to satirize immortality, originating in The Infamous Monster. 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 consonance and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing and they have similar grammatical structures. Each line has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic tetrameter). The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme, though the rhyme at the end of the first line doesn't need to match perfectly.