The Hermaphroditic Saguaro is a poetic narrative intended to amuse the audience concerning nature, originating in The Bottomless Geyser. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single line. Use of elision is characteristic of the form. The poem has four feet with a syllable weight pattern of short-long-short (quantitative amphibrachic tetrameter).