The Steamy Soles is a light poetic form intended to praise rivers, originating in The Harp-Seal of Shying. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is four tercets. The Steamy Soles is always written from the perspective of the author. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions. Each line has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic tetrameter). The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABB.