This is an analysis of The Rose And The Bee by Sara Teasdale.

IF I were a bee and you were a rose,
Would you let me in when the gray wind blows?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabba ccbbX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,
  • Metre: 0100111001 1111010111 111110101 111100111 01001 10100111001 1110111101 1111111111 111111111 010010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

you, would

Anaphora

would, if, i