The Saltwater-crocodiles of Floating is a solemn poetic form concerning Niwar Anglercave-crocodile the Wintertime Deer-people, originating in The Ceaseless Fingertip-Dominator. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a series of quatrains. Use of metaphor and simile is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning and they have similar grammatical structures. The second line of each quatrain uses the same placement of allusions as the first line. The second line of each quatrain must expand the idea of the first line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABAA.