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?!
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLJMNH
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 432
Words 79
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

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