The Gutter of Incontinent is a light poetic form intended to express pleasure with The Posthumous, originating in The Ravager of Dikes. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of elision and juxtaposition is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has five syllables. The first line has a medial caesura. The second line has a terminal caesura. The third line has an initial caesura.