Analysis of Once The Bee Has Left
If you know that you can,
do you really still have to
With uncertainty gone,
does incentive still thrive
Must you then prove to others,
what you know beyond measure
Is it anticlimactic,
—once the bee leaves the hive
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XA XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 1110111 101001 101011 1111110 1110110 110010 101101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 256 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 11, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on July 04, 2019
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