The Beaches of Waving is a light poetic form intended to express pleasure with rivers which grew out of the performances of The Skirts of Time. The form guides poets during improvised performances. The poem is two octets. Use of simile is characteristic of the form. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions. The seventh line of each octet shares the underlying meaning of the sixth line. The eighth line of each octet is required to maintain the phrasing of the first line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AABAACCC. As a rule throughout the poem, the end rhymes don't generally match perfectly.