The Nut of Sheafing is a light poetic form intended to complain about a specific place, originating in The Episodic Miscreant. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single quatrain. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing and they reverse grammatical structures. The fourth line of the quatrain uses the same placement of allusions as the second line. The first line has eight feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic octameter). The second line has eight feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic octameter). It has an initial caesura. The third line has eight feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic octameter). It has a medial caesura. The fourth line has eight feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic octameter). It has an initial caesura.