The Oceanic Sea is a ribald poetic form intended to teach a moral lesson concerning Arel Drunkensplashed the Moist originally devised by the dwarf Shorast Lockpaints. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a series of septets. A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines sometimes have reversed word orders. Each line has six syllables. The sixth line of each septet is required to maintain the phrasing of the second line. The sixth line of each septet has the same grammatical structure as the second line.