This is an analysis of the poem The Beekeeper's Daughter that begins with:

A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black
The great corollas dilate, peeling back their silks....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabb a baXbXX X baXcXbXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,6,1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100101010101 011000110111 11010101010 01011111010 1000011110001 1101010101 11101110001 1011000101 0101110101 011010101011 0101111011 0101000101 10010110110 01110111110 01010101010101 1101010101 111100111111 111000101 101100101 10010001010 01110010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Beekeeper's Daughter;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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