The Pine-apple And The Bee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK CCLLMNOOPPQQIIRS| The pine apples in triple row | A |
| Were basking hot and all in blow | A |
| A bee of most discerning taste | B |
| Perceived the fragrance as he pass d | C |
| On eager wing the spoiler came | D |
| And search d for crannies in the frame | D |
| Urged his attempt on every side | E |
| To every pane his trunk applied | E |
| But still in vain the frame was tight | F |
| And only pervious to the light | F |
| Thus having wasted half the day | G |
| He trimm d his flight another way | G |
| Methinks I said in thee I find | H |
| The sin and madness of mankind | H |
| To joys forbidden man aspires | I |
| Consumes his soul with vain desires | I |
| Folly the spring of his pursuit | J |
| And disappointment all the fruit | J |
| While Cynthio ogles as he passes | K |
| The nymph between two chariot glasses | K |
| She is the pine apple and he | C |
| The silly unsuccessful bee | C |
| The maid who views with pensive air | L |
| The show glass fraught with glittering ware | L |
| Sees watches bracelets rings and lockets | M |
| But sighs at thought of empty pockets | N |
| Like thine her appetite is keen | O |
| But ah the cruel glass between | O |
| Our dear delights are often such | P |
| Exposed to view but not to touch | P |
| The sight our foolish heart inflames | Q |
| We long for pine apples in frames | Q |
| With hopeless wish one looks and lingers | I |
| One breaks the glass and cuts his fingers | I |
| But they whom truth and wisdom lead | R |
| Can gather honey from a weed | S |
William Cowper
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