Analysis of Sweet Sting of Summertime
Susan Mayer Brumel 1955 (Newark, NJ)
“Sweet Sting of
Summertime”
Air ripe alive
gaggle dancing jive
Healing honey hive
sticky fingers tongue
| Scheme | XX AA AX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 10 1101 10101 10101 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 166 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
About this poem
In the heat of summer, I sat in the garden observing a swarm of bees. My mind jumped from the pain of being stung to the sweet, healing properties of honey.
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