The Cashew of Dance is a poetic narrative concerning alcoholic beverages, originating in The Heart of Dripping. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is two sexains. Use of ambiguity, metaphor, simile and vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing and they use the same placement of allusions. Each line has nine syllables. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBBBA.