Analysis of Sting
Bee, a Poet
Words are swarming
About the dream
In a drawer
Egging along
In each poem,
As the bee's wax
Is just storing
A honey of
A million words.
Do not open,
You will get stung.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGBHIJK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 1110 0101 001 1001 0110 1011 1110 0101 0101 1110 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 181 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
About this poem
To Emily Dickinson
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