The Bee's Winter Retreat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEECCFFGGHFII JJ FFHFJJJJ| Go while the summer suns are bright | A |
| Take at large thy wandering flight | A |
| Go and load thy tiny feet | B |
| With every rich and various sweet | B |
| Cling around the flowering thorn | C |
| Dive in the woodbine's honey'd horn | C |
| Seek the wild rose that shades the dell | D |
| Explore the foxglove's freckled bell | D |
| Or in the heath flower's fairy cup | E |
| Drink the fragrant spirit up | E |
| But when the meadows shall be mown | C |
| And summer's garlands overblown | C |
| Then come thou little busy bee | F |
| And let thy homestead be with me | F |
| There shelter'd by the straw built hive | G |
| In my garden thou shalt live | G |
| And that garden shall supply | H |
| Thy delicious alchymy | F |
| There for thee in autumn blows | I |
| The Indian pink and latest rose | I |
| The mignonette perfumes the air | J |
| And stocks unfading flowers are there | J |
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| Yet fear not when the tempests come | F |
| And drive thee to thy waxen home | F |
| That I shall then most treacherously | H |
| For thy honey murder thee | F |
| Oh no throughout the winter drear | J |
| I'll feed thee that another year | J |
| Thou may'st renew thy industry | J |
| Among the flowers thou busy bee | J |
Charlotte Smith
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