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