The Two Bees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHJ KLM NONO PQPQ RSTS UNUN VBVW UUUU UUUU UUUU ABA| But a few words could William say | A |
| And those few could not speak plain | B |
| Yet thought he was a man one day | A |
| Never saw I boy so vain | B |
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| From what could vanity proceed | C |
| In such a little lisping lad | D |
| Or was it vanity indeed | C |
| Or was he only very glad | D |
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| For he without his maid may go | E |
| To the heath with elder boys | F |
| And pluck ripe berries where they grow | E |
| Well may William then rejoice | G |
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| Be careful of your little charge | H |
| Elder boys let him not rove | I |
| The heath is wide the heath is large | H |
| From your sight he must not move | J |
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| But rove he did they had not been | K |
| One short hour the heath upon | L |
| When he was nowhere to be seen | M |
| 'Where ' said they 'is William gone ' | - |
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| Mind not the elder boys' distress | N |
| Let them run and let them fly | O |
| Their own neglect and giddiness | N |
| They are justly suffering by | O |
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| William his little basket filled | P |
| With his berries ripe and red | Q |
| Then naughty boy two bees he killed | P |
| Under foot he stamped them dead | Q |
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| William had coursed them o'er the heath | R |
| After them his steps did wander | S |
| When he was nearly out of breath | T |
| The last bee his foot was under | S |
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| A cruel triumph which did not | U |
| Last but for a moment's space | N |
| For now he finds that he has got | U |
| Out of sight of every face | N |
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| What are the berries now to him | V |
| What the bees which he has slain | B |
| Fear now possesses every limb | V |
| He cannot trace his steps again | W |
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| The poor bees William had affrighted | U |
| In more terror did not haste | U |
| Than he from bush to bush benighted | U |
| And alone amid the waste | U |
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| Late in the night the child was found | U |
| He who these two bees had crushed | U |
| Was lying on the cold damp ground | U |
| Sleep had then his sorrows hushed | U |
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| A fever followed from the fright | U |
| And from sleeping in the dew | U |
| He many a day and many a night | U |
| Suffered ere he better grew | U |
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| His aching limbs while sick he lay | A |
| Made him learn the crushed bees' pain | B |
| Oft would he to his mother say | A |
| 'I ne'er will kill a bee again ' | - |
Charles Lamb
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