The Economic-Scrutiny of Drupes is a ribald poetic form intended to complain about a chosen subject, originating in The Chromite of Loyalty. 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 ambiguity and juxtaposition is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. Each line has nine syllables. Every line of the poem has a terminal caesura. The first line concerns the past. It must make use of vivid imagery. The second line concerns the future.