The Submerged Paralysis is a ribald poetic form intended to express pleasure with the goblin deity Gonga the Forest of Cover originally devised by the goblin Xosna Irregularmeanness. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is three to four quintains. Use of elision and metaphor 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 third line of each quintain reverses the word order of the second line.