The Beekeeper's Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF G HIJKLM K KINOPK Q| A garden of mouthings Purple scarlet speckled black | A |
| The great corollas dilate peeling back their silks | B |
| Their musk encroaches circle after circle | C |
| A well of scents almost too dense to breathe in | D |
| Hieratical in your frock coat maestro of the bees | E |
| You move among the many breasted hives | F |
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| My heart under your foot sister of a stone | G |
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| Trumpet throats open to the beaks of birds | H |
| The Golden Rain Tree drips its powders down | I |
| In these little boudoirs streaked with orange and red | J |
| The anthers nod their heads potent as kings | K |
| To father dynasties The air is rich | L |
| Here is a queenship no mother can contest | M |
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| A fruit that's death to taste dark flesh dark parings | K |
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| In burrows narrow as a finger solitary bees | K |
| Keep house among the grasses Kneeling down | I |
| I set my eyes to a hole mouth and meet an eye | N |
| Round green disconsolate as a tear | O |
| Father bridegroom in this Easter egg | P |
| Under the coronal of sugar roses | K |
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| The queen bee marries the winter of your year | Q |
Sylvia Plath
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