The Bees And Flies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFGGHI JJJJKKK KKEEKK LLKKJJJJMMJJ| A Farmer of the Augustan Age | A |
| Perused in Virgil's golden page | A |
| The story of the secret won | B |
| From Proteus by Cyrene's son | B |
| How the dank sea god showed the swain | C |
| Means to restore his hives again | D |
| More briefly how a slaughtered bull | E |
| Breeds honey by the bellyful | E |
| - | |
| The egregious rustic put to death | F |
| A bull by stopping of its breath | F |
| Disposed the carcass in a shed | G |
| With fragrant herbs and branches spread | G |
| And having well performed the charm | H |
| Sat down to wait the promised swarm | I |
| - | |
| Nor waited long The God of Day | J |
| Impartial quickening with his ray | J |
| Evil and good alike beheld | J |
| The carcass and the carcass swelled | J |
| Big with new birth the belly heaves | K |
| Beneath its screen of scented leaves | K |
| Past any doubt the bull conceives | K |
| - | |
| The farmer bids men bring more hives | K |
| To house the profit that arrives | K |
| Prepares on pan and key and kettle | E |
| Sweet music that shall make 'em settle | E |
| But when to crown the work he goes | K |
| Gods What a stink salutes his nose | K |
| - | |
| Where are the honest toilers Where | L |
| The gravid mistress of their care | L |
| A busy scene indeed he sees | K |
| But not a sign or sound of bees | K |
| Worms of the riper grave unhid | J |
| By any kindly coffin lid | J |
| Obscene and shameless to the light | J |
| Seethe in insatiate appetite | J |
| Through putrid offal while above | M |
| The hissing blow fly seeks his love | M |
| Whose offspring supping where they supt | J |
| Consume corruption twice corrupt | J |
Rudyard Kipling
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