The Bee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEECCFFGCBGBC CHHBB IIHHEEJJHHGGHH KHHGGLLBBGGHHBBGEMMG E B| What time I paced at pleasant morn | A |
| A deep and dewy wood | B |
| I heard a mellow hunting horn | A |
| Make dim report of Dian's lustihood | B |
| Far down a heavenly hollow | C |
| Mine ear though fain had pain to follow | C |
| 'Tara ' it twanged 'tara tara ' it blew | D |
| Yet wavered oft and flew | D |
| Most ficklewise about or here or there | E |
| A music now from earth and now from air | E |
| But on a sudden lo | C |
| I marked a blossom shiver to and fro | C |
| With dainty inward storm and there within | F |
| A down drawn trump of yellow jessamine | F |
| A bee | G |
| Thrust up its sad gold body lustily | C |
| All in a honey madness hotly bound | B |
| On blissful burglary | G |
| A cunning sound | B |
| In that wing music held me down I lay | C |
| In amber shades of many a golden spray | C |
| Where looping low with languid arms the Vine | H |
| In wreaths of ravishment did overtwine | H |
| Her kneeling Live Oak thousand fold to plight | B |
| Herself unto her own true stalwart knight | B |
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| As some dim blur of distant music nears | I |
| The long desiring sense and slowly clears | I |
| To forms of time and apprehensive tune | H |
| So as I lay full soon | H |
| Interpretation throve the bee's fanfare | E |
| Through sequent films of discourse vague as air | E |
| Passed to plain words while fanning faint perfume | J |
| The bee o'erhung a rich unrifled bloom | J |
| O Earth fair lordly Blossom soft a shine | H |
| Upon the star pranked universal vine | H |
| Hast nought for me | G |
| To thee | G |
| Come I a poet hereward haply blown | H |
| From out another worldflower lately flown | H |
| Wilt ask 'What profit e'er a poet brings ' | - |
| He beareth starry stuff about his wings | K |
| To pollen thee and sting thee fertile nay | H |
| If still thou narrow thy contracted way | H |
| Worldflower if thou refuse me | G |
| Worldflower if thou abuse me | G |
| And hoist thy stamen's spear point high | L |
| To wound my wing and mar mine eye | L |
| Nathless I'll drive me to thy deepest sweet | B |
| Yea richlier shall that pain the pollen beat | B |
| From me to thee for oft these pollens be | G |
| Fine dust from wars that poets wage for thee | G |
| But O beloved Earthbloom soft a shine | H |
| Upon the universal Jessamine | H |
| Prithee abuse me not | B |
| Prithee refuse me not | B |
| Yield yield the heartsome honey love to me | G |
| Hid in thy nectary | E |
| And as I sank into a dimmer dream | M |
| The pleading bee's song burthen sole did seem | M |
| Hast ne'er a honey drop of love for me | G |
| In thy huge nectary | E |
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| Tampa Florida | B |
Sidney Lanier
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