The Droopiness of Shovels is a poetic form intended to complain about family which grew out of the performances of The Shocks of Flight. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is an extremely long series of sexains. Use of consonance is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning. Each line has six syllables.