The Butterfly And The Bee. (from The Villager's Verse-book.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEGMethought I heard a butterfly | A |
Say to a labouring bee | B |
Thou hast no colours of the sky | A |
On painted wings like me | B |
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Poor child of vanity those dyes | C |
And colours bright and rare | D |
With mild reproof the bee replies | C |
Are all beneath my care | D |
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Content I toil from morn till eve | E |
And scorning idleness | F |
To tribes of gawdy sloth I leave | E |
The vanities of dress | G |
William Lisle Bowles
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