Sweet Honey-sucking Bees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJJ| Sweet honey sucking bees why do you still | A |
| surfeit on roses pinks and violets | B |
| as if the choicest nectar lay in them | C |
| wherewith you store your curious cabinets | B |
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| Ah make your flight to Melisuavia's lips | D |
| There may you revel in ambrosian cheer | E |
| where smiling roses and sweet lilies sit | F |
| Keeping their springtide graces all the year | E |
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| Part | G |
| Yet sweet take heed all sweets are hard to get | H |
| Sting not her soft lips O beware of that | I |
| for if one flaming dart come from her eye | J |
| was never dart so sharp ah then you die | J |
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John Wilbye
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