How Doth The Little Busy Bee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GHGH CICI| How doth the little busy bee | A |
| Improve each shining hour | B |
| And gather honey all the day | C |
| From every opening flower | B |
| - | |
| How skilfully she builds her cell | D |
| How neat she spreads the wax | E |
| And labors hard to store it well | D |
| With the sweet food she makes | F |
| - | |
| In works of labor or of skill | G |
| I would be busy too | H |
| For Satan finds some mischief still | G |
| For idle hands to do | H |
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| In books or work or healthful play | C |
| Let my first years be passed | I |
| That I may give for every day | C |
| Some good account at last | I |
Isaac Watts
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