the sugar plum tree

The Sugar-Plum Tree

HAVE you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree?

'Tis a marvel of great renown!

It blooms on the shore of the Lollypop Sea

In the garden of Shut-Eye Town;

The fruit that it bears is so wondrously sweet

(As those who have tasted it say)

That good little children have only to eat

Of that fruit to be happy next day.

When you've got to the tree, you would have a hard time

To capture the fruit which I sing;

The tree is so tall that no person could climb

To the boughs where the sugar-plums swing!

But up in that tree sits a chocolate cat,

And a ginger bread dog prowls below-

And this is the way you contrive to get at

Those sugar-plums tempting you so:

You say but the word to that gingerbread dog

And he barks with such a terrible zest

That the chocolate cat is at once all agog,

As her swelling proportions attest.

And the chocolate cat goes covorting around

From this leafy limb unto that,

And the sugar-plums tumble, of course, to the ground-

Hurray for that chocolate cat!

There are marshmallows, gumdrops, and peppermint canes

With striping of scarlet and gold,

And you carry away of the treasure that rains,

As much as your apron can hold!

So come, little child, cuddle closer to me

In your dainty white nightcap and gown,

And I'll rock you away to the Sugar-Plum Tree

In the garden of Shut-Eye Town.

Eugene Field

The elements of poetry are imagery, sound, voice and form. The form in this poetry is very neat. Each sentence isn't on one row but several rows. I don't think that this poem is metaphor or a simile. It doesn't really compare the Sugar Plum Tree with anything. It is a story about the tree and what happened when some kids wanted some sugar plum. And there was a chocolate cat and a gingerbread dog who helped them to get sugar plum.
There is rhyming in the poem. I think that this poem is like, not does not express any serious emotions. This poem describes me because i think that this poem has alot of imagination and i like fantasy-ish stuff.