The Avalanche of Granite is a ribald poetic form intended to describe The Pointy Tower which grew out of the performances of The Speechless Ambiguity. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a series of quintains. Use of vivid imagery is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines use the same placement of allusions and they sometimes have reversed word orders. Every line of the poem has a medial caesura. The third line of each quintain must expand the idea of the second line.