The Boastful Immensity is a ribald poetic form intended to express grief over war, originating in The Chronic Barbarity. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single line. Use of simile is characteristic of the form. Linguistic skill is required in the visual presentation as well, as The Boastful Immensity must feature lines with different readings depending on word breaks. The poem has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic pentameter). The poem has a terminal caesura.