This is an analysis of the poem The White Bees that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b XcXdec bbafgX hijhkj ggbcdb cXlhXl dccjgc X c a gggg imim acac X nknkllgccbgb X kklklaajajnglnl X kikkicmcmololhhffXeelhH a XcjcgaagpiipaaXccppemmeegkgkgg a mcmcclhclcH X b ikjcij jibgkb dcabha hhbgXb gjhhih figXig jhqkdq
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,1,1,4,4,4,1,12,1,15,1,23,1,30,1,11,1,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1 10 10101010100 100010 1010011100110 100011101010 101010 101010100101 10100100001010 0010 10101010011 101011101010 101010 1010111100 101100101011 111010 100110001011 100110111011 101110 11111000101 101010101010 101110 101001010101 1010010101010 1010 10101010101 1001001011010 1111000 11111010111 100011111010 101010 11101111101 1111111010 10101010 01001011101 111010111011 1001010 11101000111 1 010001 1 11101000111 11101001111 11001010111 10101010111 100010001101 10001000111 11101000111 101001110111 11101000111 11111010111 101010101101 10101000111 1 10011101 10011101 110100101 100100111 110101 100111 111001 1101001 10010101 1010101 101101 011101 1 1010010 10101001 0110011 1010101 1010111 1010111 1011101 101010 101011 101010 10101001 0010101 00100111 00101001 111111 1 1101001111 1011011011 1001101001 1011111001 0100100111 11110010010 10101001 1001001010 100101 111100111 00010111 100100101 000100101 10010111 10010111 1010101010 101110110 0101100111 101100111 100101011 100101101 00100111101 1000101 1 110101100 11110101 11010111 01010001 01001 110001 11011 110111 0101001 011010 011010 10101 11001111 11011101 0111 11010101 11010101 11011101 110100101 0111 10010001 10010101 010100111 11010001 1011 01110111 1001 01110101 10010101 10111101 1 1101110111 100101 0101011111 100101001 0101010101 11111111 100111 0100010111 0101000101 0101000111 1000101 1 10 101010101010 101010 10101111101 10001010010100 010 10111111101 101110101010 1000010 10001011111 1010101000101 10010 00101010101 1110111010010 001010 00111010101 1110111011 011111011 100111010101 1011101011 10101110 10101110111 10101110101 1101010 10101010111 10011010001 1100010 100010100011 101011111011 0010010 10001010111 111010100110 100010 10101110001 11101010111 101010 1010011101 101010101010 101011 11001010111 001010101010 101010 11101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 200
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; golden, them, of, and, faster, they, he, new, that, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words golden, who, never, wait, he, in, they are repeated.

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  • summary of The White Bees;
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  • history of its creation;
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