This is an analysis of the poem What The Bee Is To The Floweret that begins with:

What the bee is to the floweret,
When he looks for honey-dew, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa B cdcd B efef b gbgb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101000100 1111101 101111000 1111001 11 10101010 0011101 100101110 1100111 11 11101010 1011111 11101010 1010101 11 10100111 01010101 1111111 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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