Analysis of What Does The Bee Do?
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
What does the bee do?
Bring home honey.
And what does Father do?
Bring home money.
And what does Mother do?
Lay out the money.
And what does baby do?
Eat up the honey.
| Scheme | ABABABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 1110 011101 1110 011101 11010 011101 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 175 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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