Letter Xi. From The Glow-worm To The Humble-bee. (the Bird And Insects' Post-office.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCBDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNNOOPQRRSTIUGGVV WWNNXXYYZZA2A2YYB2B2 C2| CHARLES BLOOMFIELD | A |
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| Excuse Mr Bee this epistle to one | B |
| Whose time from the earliest gleam of the sun | B |
| Till he sinks in the west is so busily spent | C |
| That I fear I intrude but I write with intent | C |
| To save your whole city from pillage and ruin | B |
| And to warn you in time of a plot that is brewing | D |
| Last night when as usual enjoying the hour | E |
| When the gloaming had spread and a trickling shower | E |
| Was beading the grass as it silently fell | F |
| And day with reluctance was bidding farewell | F |
| When down by yon hedge nearly opposite you | G |
| And your City of Honey as proudly I threw | G |
| The rays from my lamp in a magical round | H |
| I listened alarmed upon hearing the sound | H |
| Of human intruders approaching more near | I |
| But I presently found I had nothing to fear | I |
| For the hedge was between us and I and my gleam | J |
| Lay hid from their view when the following scheme | J |
| I heard as they sheltered beneath the old tree | K |
| And send you each creature's own words Mr Bee | K |
| See Jack there it is now suppose you and I | L |
| With a spade and some brimstone should each of us try | L |
| Some night when we're sure all the bees are at rest | M |
| To smother them all and then dig out the nest | M |
| I know we can do it said Jack with delight | N |
| I can't come to morrow but s'pose the next night | N |
| We both set about it if you are inclined | O |
| And then we will halve all the honey we find | O |
| Agreed said the other but let us be gone | P |
| And they left me in thought until early this morn | Q |
| When I certainly meant if your worship had stay'd | R |
| But a minute or two till my speech I had made | R |
| To have saved you the reading as well as the cost | S |
| Of a letter by post but my words were all lost | T |
| For though they were lavished each time you came near | I |
| Or was close overhead and I thought you should hear | U |
| Yet the buzz of importance as onward you flew | G |
| Bobbing into each flower the whole meadow through | G |
| So baffled your brains that I let you alone | V |
| For I found that I might as well speak to a drone | V |
| Yet rather than quietly leave you to fate | W |
| Such a villainous thought never entered my pate | W |
| I send you this letter composed by the light | N |
| Of my silvery lamp in the dead of the night | N |
| And about the same time and the very same place | X |
| That a few nights ago when the moon hid her face | X |
| I beheld nearly hid in the grass as I lay | Y |
| And my lamp in full splendour reflecting its ray | Y |
| In the eye of each dewdrop the fairies unseen | Z |
| To all human vision trip here with their Queen | Z |
| To pay me a visit to dance and to feast | A2 |
| And their revels continued till full in the east | A2 |
| The sun tinged the clouds for another bright day | Y |
| When each took the warning and bounded away | Y |
| 'Tis the same at this moment Farewell Mr Hum | B2 |
| I've extinguished my lamp for the morning is come | B2 |
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| SPANGLE | C2 |
Robert Bloomfield
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About Letter Xi. From The Glow-worm To The Humble-bee. (the Bird And Insects' Post-office.)
Letter Xi. From The Glow-worm To The Humble-bee. (the Bird And Insects' Post-office.) is a poem by Robert Bloomfield. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.