Analysis of What the Bee Is To the Floweret
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
What the bee is to the floweret,
When he looks for honey-dew,
Through the leaves that close embower it,
That, my love, I'll be to you.
What the bank, with verdure glowing,
Is to waves that wander near,
Whispering kisses, while they're going,
That I'll be to you, my dear.
But they say, the bee's a rover,
Who will fly, when sweets are gone,
And, when once the kiss is over,
Faithless brooks will wander on.
Nay, if flowers will lose their looks
If sunny banks will wear away,
'Tis but right that bees and brooks
Should sip and kiss them, while they may.
Scheme | AAAX BCBC DXDX EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 1011101 1111101 1011111 1111111 1011110 1111101 100101110 1111111 11101010 1111111 01101110 111101 11101111 11011101 1111101 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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