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

What time I paced, at pleasant morn,
A deep and dewy wood,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXccddeeddaafXbXbffaXgg hhaaeeiiaaffaaXhffffffggffaaggfXiifX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11111101 011101 11010101 110101100 11010010 111111010 10010101001 110111 1100011111 0101011101 110101 1101010011 0101011101 0111010100 01 1101110100 1001010101 110100 0101 0111011111 01010100101 1101010101 0101000100 0101110101 0110011101 1111010101 01010011101 0101110101 111111 0101010111 1101010111 1011110101 01100011001 10111010101 01011010101 1111 01 11010100101 01010100101 11110100101 1101010101 0101111011 0111011001 10001011 10001011 11110111 01111111 1011101101 1101110101 0101111100 1101110111 1101010101 0101010100 10111 10111 1101010101 1011000 1111000101 0101110101 10101010111 0111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 201
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tara, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, in, worldflower, prithee are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, not are repeated).

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  • summary of The Bee;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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