This is an analysis of the poem The Bee's Winter Retreat that begins with:

Go, while the summer suns are bright,
Take at large thy wandering flight,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddXbeeffeXgghh iiXeXhXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 11111001 1111101 0100111001 10101001 1001001001 10111101 010100101 100110101 1010101 11011101 11010101 11110101 11111001 11010111 0110111 1110101 1010100 1110101 010011101 01000101 111001011 11110101 11101101 111111000 1110101 11010101 11110101 11011100 010101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
  • Average number of words per stanza: 89
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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