Analysis of In the Orange Grove



On a hot summer day
feeling thirst dismayed,
like a little bird I peeped.
I was then startled by the last orange
rattling through the dry branches and
leaves, fallen at my range...
whoopee...such surprise
turn up my day's treat!
There, I found it luring till
seized, squeezed, wanted to gulp,
fondled it heavenly great;
and through its crinkly shrunken peel
punched a hole for its pulp
and sucked through...
oh my...oh my...
wasn't it ever sweet?!


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLJMNH
Poetic Form
Metre 101101 10101 1010111 1111010110 10101100 110111 101 11111 1111101 111011 1011001 0111101 101111 011 111 101101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 432
Words 79
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 343
Words per stanza (avg) 77
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 27, 2023

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