This is an analysis of Telling The Bees by Dora Sigerson Shorter.

This is the son of the white morning singing,
Combing her silken hair's simmer of gold,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdcadaXaeae XdXX
  • Stanza lengths: 16,4,
  • Metre: 00010011010 1001011001 100100100100 1001011001 101001001110 1011001011 010011010010 1101001101 10111011010 1001011111 010110011010 1101001101 11110010010 0011101001 10011110110 1001111001 1110011010010 111001001111 111010111010 11001001101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

of, they

Anaphora

they