The Captiv'd Bee, Or The Little Filcher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEBBFFGGHIJJKK AACCLLMMMNN| As Julia once a slumbering lay | A |
| It chanced a bee did fly that way | A |
| After a dew or dew like shower | B |
| To tipple freely in a flower | B |
| For some rich flower he took the lip | C |
| Of Julia and began to sip | C |
| But when he felt he sucked from thence | D |
| Honey and in the quintessence | E |
| He drank so much he scarce could stir | B |
| So Julia took the pilferer | B |
| And thus surprised as filchers use | F |
| He thus began himself t' excuse | F |
| Sweet lady flower I never brought | G |
| Hither the least one thieving thought | G |
| But taking those rare lips of yours | H |
| For some fresh fragrant luscious flowers | I |
| I thought I might there take a taste | J |
| Where so much syrup ran at waste | J |
| Besides know this I never sting | K |
| The flower that gives me nourishing | K |
| But with a kiss or thanks do pay | A |
| For honey that I bear away | A |
| This said he laid his little scrip | C |
| Of honey 'fore her ladyship | C |
| And told her as some tears did fall | L |
| That that he took and that was all | L |
| At which she smiled and bade him go | M |
| And take his bag but thus much know | M |
| When next he came a pilfering so | M |
| He should from her full lips derive | N |
| Honey enough to fill his hive | N |
Robert Herrick
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