The Girdled Thimbles is a dramatic poetic form intended to amuse the audience concerning alcoholic beverages, originating in The Disloyalty of Blushing. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. Use of ambiguity is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often contrast underlying meaning and they sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has two feet with a tone pattern of uneven-even. The ending of each line of the poem shares the same rhyme.