This is an analysis of the poem Telling The Bees: (For Edward Tennant) that begins with:
Tell it to the bees, lest they
Umbrage take and fly away,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddeffe ggheeh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000111 1011101 1010101 1110111 1010111 1011101 10101010 10100110 1111101 11111110 01111110 1110101 1101101 1010111 1011101 1010111 1110111 0011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word tell at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase over connects the lines.
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- summary of Telling The Bees: (For Edward Tennant);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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