The Ascent of Swaggers is a ribald poetic form intended to express grief over immortality, originating in The Temptation of Slobs. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is three to four quintains. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines have similar grammatical structures. Each line has four syllables. The third line of each quintain presents a different view of the subject of the second line.