The Spongy Businesses is a ribald poetic form intended to amuse the audience concerning family which grew out of the performances of The Heroic Waxes. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is nine nine-line stanzas. Use of simile is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines are required to maintain phrasing and they have similar grammatical structures. Each line has five syllables.