The Hornets And The Bees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KLMNNOOPPQ RRSSTTUUVWWVMM| A | |
| - | |
| The artist by his work is known | B |
| A piece of honey comb one day | C |
| Discover'd as a waif and stray | C |
| The hornets treated as their own | B |
| Their title did the bees dispute | D |
| And brought before a wasp the suit | D |
| The judge was puzzled to decide | E |
| For nothing could be testified | E |
| Save that around this honey comb | F |
| There had been seen as if at home | F |
| Some longish brownish buzzing creatures | G |
| Much like the bees in wings and features | G |
| But what of that for marks the same | H |
| The hornets too could truly claim | H |
| Between assertion and denial | I |
| The wasp in doubt proclaim'd new trial | I |
| And hearing what an ant hill swore | J |
| Could see no clearer than before | J |
| 'What use I pray of this expense ' | - |
| At last exclaim'd a bee of sense | K |
| 'We've labour'd months in this affair | L |
| And now are only where we were | M |
| Meanwhile the honey runs to waste | N |
| 'Tis time the judge should show some haste | N |
| The parties sure have had sufficient bleeding | O |
| Without more fuss of scrawls and pleading | O |
| Let's set ourselves at work these drones and we | P |
| And then all eyes the truth may plainly see | P |
| Whose art it is that can produce | Q |
| The magic cells the nectar juice ' | - |
| The hornets flinching on their part | R |
| Show that the work transcends their art | R |
| The wasp at length their title sees | S |
| And gives the honey to the bees | S |
| Would God that suits at laws with us | T |
| Might all be managed thus | T |
| That we might in the Turkish mode | U |
| Have simple common sense for code | U |
| They then were short and cheap affairs | V |
| Instead of stretching on like ditches | W |
| Ingulfing in their course all riches | W |
| The parties leaving for their shares | V |
| The shells and shells there might be moister | M |
| From which the court has suck'd the oyster | M |
Jean De La Fontaine
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