Wild Bees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDFGGFHGIJKLJMN ONOPQPQRSRSTATAUUThese children of the sun which summer brings | A |
As pastoral minstrels in her merry train | B |
Pipe rustic ballads upon busy wings | A |
And glad the cotters' quiet toils again | C |
The white nosed bee that bores its little hole | D |
In mortared walls and pipes its symphonies | E |
And never absent couzen black as coal | D |
That Indian like bepaints its little thighs | F |
With white and red bedight for holiday | G |
Right earlily a morn do pipe and play | G |
And with their legs stroke slumber from their eyes | F |
And aye so fond they of their singing seem | H |
That in their holes abed at close of day | G |
They still keep piping in their honey dreams | I |
And larger ones that thrum on ruder pipe | J |
Round the sweet smelling closen and rich woods | K |
Where tawny white and red flush clover buds | L |
Shine bonnily and bean fields blossom ripe | J |
Shed dainty perfumes and give honey food | M |
To these sweet poets of the summer fields | N |
Me much delighting as I stroll along | O |
The narrow path that hay laid meadow yields | N |
Catching the windings of their wandering song | O |
The black and yellow bumble first on wing | P |
To buzz among the sallow's early flowers | Q |
Hiding its nest in holes from fickle spring | P |
Who stints his rambles with her frequent showers | Q |
And one that may for wiser piper pass | R |
In livery dress half sables and half red | S |
Who laps a moss ball in the meadow grass | R |
And hoards her stores when April showers have fled | S |
And russet commoner who knows the face | T |
Of every blossom that the meadow brings | A |
Starting the traveller to a quicker pace | T |
By threatening round his head in many rings | A |
These sweeten summer in their happy glee | U |
By giving for her honey melody | U |
John Clare
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