Analysis of Beehive B-Flat Rhapsody
Beehive B-flat z’s
The chords of B’s are humming…
The drones’ symphony.
Their Queen Bee’s Composition…
Now abuzz in my waxed ears.
Follicles of (h)air
Swaying in my ears…
By an hornet’s pitch.
Pitched B-flat major…
Tympanic motif.
“Here will I rest and …
Let the sweet sounds of Chamber-
Music creep buzzing …
Humming, drumming, and buzzing…
In my (h)air-filled bees-waxed ears.”
B-flat rhapsody,
Rapping rap-a-tap rapping.
Rapping in my ears.
Rap-a-tap rap-a-tap bees…
Buzzing, buzzing in my ears.
Beehive rhapsody
Abuzz-abuzz, a buzzing…
Bees in rhapsody.
Abuzz-abuzz, a buzzing…
Abuzz-abuzz, a buzzing.
Scheme | abcxa xaxdx xdbba cbaaa cBcBB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) |
Metre | 1111 0111110 01100 111010 1010111 100111 10011 11101 11110 01001 11110 1011110 10110 1010010 01111111 11100 1010110 10011 1011011 1010011 1100 0101010 10100 0101010 0101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 646 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
This poem, written creatively as a melodrama, was composed lyrically and experimentally to combine a one-stanza 5-5-5-5-5 metered free verse unrhymed quintain with a four-stanza 5-7-5-7-7 metered Japanese-style free verse unrhymed tanka poem, with the aim of amplifying the busy buzzing sound of a bee’s hive or a hornet’s nest, creating symphonically in the bees-waxed eardrums of an aged forlorn lovestruck wandering drone of a lackluster traveler, a romantic musical dulcimer composition, as he savors the fading memory of a long lost love, becoming in the process enchanted by what seems to his quixotic ears, the enticing appealing sound of a musical brass hornet instrument. In this state of mind he dreamily recalls a pleasant faded memory of his sweetheart ‘Dulcinea’ mate, by muttering in the poem’s third stanza a thought similar to the inmemorable poetic lines uttered by Lorenzo, courting Jessica, Act II, Scene I, in William Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” which reads in part: “How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony….” Readers of this poem are invited to observe that the poem’s one-stanza 5-5-5-5-5 quintain is placed strategically between the two stanzas of tanka that begin and close the poem, as a means of cementing the overall tempo range of the poem as a whole, while at the same time delivering the poem’s multilevel semantic messages with a humorous harmonious lyrical beat. The hair-filled waxed ear chamber of the protagonist is suggestive of someone way past youth, no longer a spritely vigorous lad, but remaining adventurous, full of curiosity, and still energized by the offerings of nature abuzz with the vibrancy of life. more »
Written on August 21, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on August 21, 2022
Modified by karlcfolkes on May 05, 2023
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