Spiders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDC EFGCGEECGGC ECGEGGHGIJKJCCGGLG EGMNONPQECNRSEGCRMRE RIs the spider a monster in miniature | A |
His web is a cruel stair to be sure | A |
Designed artfully cunningly placed | B |
A delicate trap carefully spun | C |
To bind the fly innocent or unaware | D |
In a net as strong as a chain or a gun | C |
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There are far more spiders than the man in the street | E |
supposes | F |
And the philosopher king imagines let alone knows | G |
There are six hundred kinds of spiders and each one | C |
Differs in kind and in unkindness | G |
In variety of behavior spiders are unrivalled | E |
The fat garden spider sits motionless amidst or at the heart | E |
Of the orb of its web other kinds run | C |
Scuttling across the floor falling into bathtubs | G |
Trapped in the path of its own wrath by overconfidence | G |
drowned and undone | C |
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Other kinds more and more kinds under the stars and | E |
the sun | C |
Are carnivores all are relentless ruthless | G |
Enemies of insects Their methods of getting food | E |
Are unconventional numerous various and sometimes | G |
hilarious | G |
Some spiders spin webs as beautiful | H |
As Japanese drawings intricate as clocks strong as rocks | G |
Others construct traps which consist only | I |
Of two sticky and tricky threads Yet this ambush is enough | J |
To bind and chain a crawling ant for long | K |
enough | J |
The famished spider feels the vibration | C |
Which transforms patience into sensation and satiation | C |
The handsome wolf spider moves suddenly freely and relies | G |
Upon lightning suddenness stealth and surprise | G |
Possessing accurate eyes pouncing upon his victim with the | L |
speed of surmise | G |
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Courtship is dangerous there are just as many elaborate | E |
and endless techniques and varieties | G |
As characterize the wooing of more analytic more | M |
introspective beings Sometimes the male | N |
Arrives with the gift of a freshly caught fly | O |
Sometimes he ties down the female when she is frail | N |
With deft strokes and quick maneuvres and threads of silk | P |
But courtship and wooing whatever their form are | Q |
informed | E |
By extreme caution prudence and calculation | C |
For the female spider lazier and fiercer than the male | N |
suitor | R |
May make a meal of him if she does not feel in the same | S |
mood or if her appetite | E |
Consumes her far more than the revelation of love's | G |
consummation | C |
Here among spiders as in the higher forms of nature | R |
The male runs a terrifying risk when he goes seeking for | M |
the bounty of beautiful Alma Magna Mater | R |
Yet clearly and truly he must seek and find his mate and | E |
match like every other living creature | R |
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