jouncing between my thighs 

was the pommel and yet the poll 

of my nickering pony's head. 

My head and my neck were mine, 

yet they were shaped like a horse. 

My hair flopped to the side 

like the mane of a horse in the wind."

The use of metaphors and similes in the poem are used to convey how the whole poem are based on imagination, and most of what is described is in the girls imagination.

In what ways does the poem's conclusion, specifically the interaction with her mother, suggest that the adult world diminishes or suppresses the freedom of childhood imagination?

and Why is your mouth all green? 

Rob Roy, he pulled some clover 

as we crossed the field, I told her."

This image described in the text is used to show the reader how deep into her imaginary scenario she was, and how she was willing to eat clovers because of it.