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Form is French Retourne and does not necessarily follow the Quatrain form exactly, although in the this case it generally does with the possible weak rhymes in the 1st and last stanzas. This form must have four, four line, stanzas, each with eight syllables, no rhyme necessary. The second line in stanza one must be the first line in stanza two, third line is first in stanza three and the fourth line is first in stanza four.
One of my personal photos. Copyright © 2015 James Inman
The image above is that of the plant that partially inspired the poem. The plant is a Sensitive Plant and drawing your finger along the leaf stem causes the leaves on either side to close together similar to a Venus Fly Trap.