This is an analysis of How Doth The Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts.

How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece afaf
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11010101 0111010 11010101 010010010 11001101 111101 11010101 001111 01010101 110101 11011101 110101 01111101 111001 111111001 100111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

she

Anaphora

how, for