The Independent Bee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDEECCD FFGGDG EEHIHIDJJKKDEEIIDI LLEMEMDNNEEDOOIIDI| A hive of bees as I've heard say | A |
| Said to their Queen one sultry day | A |
| Please your Majesty's high position | B |
| The hive is full and the weather is warm | C |
| We rather think with a due submission | B |
| The time has come when we ought to swarm | C |
| Buzz buzz buzz buzz | D |
| Up spake their Queen and thus spake she | E |
| This is a matter that rests with me | E |
| Who dares opinions thus to form | C |
| I'LL tell you when it is time to swarm | C |
| Buzz buzz buzz buzz | D |
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| Her Majesty wore an angry frown | F |
| In fact her Majesty's foot was down | F |
| Her Majesty sulked declined to sup | G |
| In short her Majesty's back was up | G |
| Buzz buzz buzz buzz | D |
| Her foot was down and her back was up | G |
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| That hive contained one obstinate bee | E |
| His name was Peter and thus spake he | E |
| Though every bee has shown white feather | H |
| To bow to tyranny I'm not prone | I |
| Why should a hive swarm all together | H |
| Surely a bee can swarm alone | I |
| Buzz buzz buzz buzz | D |
| Upside down and inside out | J |
| Backwards forwards round about | J |
| Twirling here and twisting there | K |
| Topsy turvily everywhere | K |
| Buzz buzz buzz buzz | D |
| Pitiful sight it was to see | E |
| Respectable elderly high class bee | E |
| Who kicked the beam at sixteen stone | I |
| Trying his best to swarm alone | I |
| Buzz buzz buzz buzz | D |
| Trying his best to swarm alone | I |
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| The hive were shocked to see their chum | L |
| A strict teetotaller teetotum | L |
| The Queen exclaimed How terrible very | E |
| It's perfectly clear to all the throng | M |
| Peter's been at the old brown sherry | E |
| Old brown sherry is much too strong | M |
| Buzz buzz buzz buzz | D |
| Of all who thus themselves degrade | N |
| A stern example must be made | N |
| To Coventry go you tipsy bee | E |
| So off to Coventry town went he | E |
| Buzz buzz buzz buzz | D |
| There classed with all who misbehave | O |
| Both plausible rogue and noisome knave | O |
| In dismal dumps he lived to own | I |
| The folly of trying to swarm alone | I |
| Buzz buzz buzz buzz | D |
| All came of trying to swarm alone | I |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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