This is an analysis of the poem Sweet Honey-Sucking Bees that begins with:
Sweet honey-sucking bees, why do you still
surfeit on roses, pinks and violets,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa abcb XccddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011111 1011011100 1001010100 100111100100 1111010001 1111000101 1101011101 1011010101 11 1111111101 1101110101 1011011001 1101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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