The Float of Sploshes is a poetic riddle intended to teach a moral lesson concerning rivers, originating in The Custom of Shoulders. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is four fourteen-line stanzas. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning, they often contrast underlying meaning, they have similar grammatical structures and they use the same placement of allusions. Each line has nine syllables. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABCACDBBACACCB.