Analysis of Telling the Bees
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
A Colonial Custom
Bathsheba came out to the sun,
Out to our wallèd cherry-trees;
The tears adown her cheek did run,
Bathsheba standing in the sun,
Telling the bees.
My mother had that moment died;
Unknowing, sped I to the trees,
And plucked Bathsheba’s hand aside;
Then caught the name that there she cried
Telling the bees.
Her look I never can forget,
I that held sobbing to her knees;
The cherry-boughs above us met;
I think I see Bathsheba yet
Telling the bees.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010010 01011101 111011101 0110111 01010001 1001 11011101 01011101 011101 11011111 1001 01110101 11110101 01010111 11110101 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 461 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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