My Bees: An Allegory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACBBADEFBFEEFGG| O bees sweet bees I said that nearest field | A |
| Is shining white with fragrant immortelles | B |
| Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells | B |
| Then spicy pines the sunny hive to shield | A |
| I set and patient for the autumn's yield | A |
| Of sweet I waited | C |
| When the village bells | B |
| Rang frosty clear and from their satin cells | B |
| The chestnuts leaped rejoicing I unsealed | A |
| My hive | D |
| Alas no snowy honey there | E |
| Was stored My wicked bees had borne away | F |
| Their queen and left no trace | B |
| That very day | F |
| An idle drone who sauntered through the air | E |
| I tracked and followed and he led me where | E |
| My truant bees and stolen honey lay | F |
| Twice faithless bees They had sought out to eat | G |
| Rank bitter herbs The honey was not sweet | G |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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