The Butterfly And The Bee. (from The Villager's Verse-book.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG| Methought 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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