This is an analysis of the poem The Independent Bee that begins with:
A hive of bees, as I've heard say,
Said to their Queen one sultry day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbXDaacXD bbeeDe aafbfXDgghhDaabBDB cXijijDkkXaDllbbDb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,18,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 10111101 1011001010 0101101001 1101001010 0111111010 1111 11111111 1000101101 11010101 1111001010 1111 010011101 010100111 010010101 010100111 1111 011110111 110111001 011101111 10100111110 010100011 110111010 1001111000 1111 1111011 1010101 1011101 10100101 1111 10010101 0100100111 11011011 10010101 1111 10010101 01010111 011000100 01011010010 010010101 100101110 11100111 1111 01110101 01010101 0100111010 110100111 1111 11011101 110011101 01011101 0100100101 1111 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; buzz, her are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word alone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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