The Custard-apple of Hoppers is a poetic form concerning alcoholic beverages, originating in The Beak-Dog of Dregs. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is a single tercet. Use of alliteration and consonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing. The first line is intended to make an assertion. It has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic pentameter). The second line is intended to make a counter-assertion. It has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long (quantitative iambic tetrameter). The third line is intended to synthesize previous ideas. It has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic tetrameter).