This is an analysis of The Bees And Flies by Rudyard Kipling.
A Farmer of the Augustan Age
Perused in Virgil's golden page…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcX ddeeff ggXehhX hhcchh iihhXejjkkXj
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,7,6,12,
- Metre: 010001001 01010101 01000101 01011001 10111101 10010101 11010101 11010100 001010101 01110001 01010001 01011101 11010101 11010101 11010101 010100001 10100110 01010101 10110101 01010101 110101100 01011111 01010101 011111110 110111010 11010111 11010101 11010101 01010011 01010111 11011101 10010110 11010101 01110001 10100101 11010101 01011101 11110111 01010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 39
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