Analysis of Prickle Prickle Little Cactus
Prickle prickle, little cactus,
Stretch your spines up to the sun,
Let the shy soft morning daylight
Warm your branches, and grow on.
Prickle prickle, little cactus,
Stretch up high and grow away,
Wind around in spiny flurries
Till the moon waves the sun away.
Prickle prickle, little cactus,
Watch the bats and moths at play,
As they dance under the moonlight
And open blooms to the moon’s silver ray.
| Scheme | Axbx Acxc Acbc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 111010 1111101 1011101 1110011 111010 1110101 10101010 10110101 111010 1010111 1111001 0101101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 406 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
This poem was inspired by my love for cacti and plants in general.
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