Analysis of The Bee is not afraid of me
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Bee is not afraid of me.
I know the Butterfly.
The pretty people in the Woods
Receive me cordially—
The Brooks laugh louder when I come—
The Breezes madder play;
Wherefore mine eye thy silver mists,
Wherefore, Oh Summer's Day?
| Scheme | AXXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 01110111 11010 01010001 011100 01110111 010101 1111101 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 235 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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