Dame Spider. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB EEDD DDFF EEGG HHAA AADD| Little Dame Spider had finished her spinning | A |
| Just as the warm summer day was beginning | A |
| And the white threads of her beautiful curtain | B |
| Tied she and glued she to make them more certain | B |
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| Dressed in her old fashioned feathers and fringes | C |
| Then she sat down to wait on silken hinges | C |
| Swung the light fleece with a moonshiny glisten | B |
| Nothing for her but to watch and to listen | B |
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| Presently going off early to labor | D |
| Bowing politely as neighbor to neighbor | D |
| When he caught sight of this little old woman | B |
| Sailed by a honey bee serge clad and common | B |
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| Are you so scornful because I am humble | E |
| Many a time your rich relatives Bumble | E |
| Pause in their flying to chat for an hour | D |
| She called out after him half gay half sour | D |
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| O no he cried I am off to discover | D |
| What I can find fresh in the way of white clover | D |
| But since your window is cosy and shady | F |
| I will sit down half a minute dear Lady | F |
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| Little Dame Spider arose with a rustle | E |
| Welcomed him with ceremonious bustle | E |
| Quick as a flash threw her long arms around him | G |
| Heeded no buzzing but held him and bound him | G |
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| Tied knots so tight that he could not undo them | H |
| Wove snares so strong that he could not break through them | H |
| Then with a relish stood chuckling and grinning | A |
| This is to pay me for my early spinning | A |
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| At the home hive the bees going and coming | A |
| Kept up all day their industrious humming | A |
| Nor did it one of their busy heads bother | D |
| That Madame Spider had dined off their brother | D |
Clara Doty Bates
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