Analysis of Sweet honey-sucking bees
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
Sweet honey-sucking bees, why do you still
surfeit on roses, pinks and violets,
as if the choicest nectar lay in them
wherewith you store your curious cabinets?
Ah, make your flight to Melisuavia's lips.
There may you revel in ambrosian cheer,
where smiling roses and sweet lilies sit,
Keeping their springtide graces all the year.
[Part 2:
Yet, sweet, take heed, all sweets are hard to get:
Sting not her soft lips, O, beware of that,
for if one flaming dart come from her eye,
was never dart so sharp, ah, then you die.
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Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011111 1011010100 1101010101 1111100100 1111111 1111000101 1101001101 101110101 1 1111111111 1101110111 1111011101 1101111111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 518 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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