Spiders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDC EFGCGEECGGC ECGEGGHGIJKJCCGGLG EGMNONPQECNRSEGCRMRE R| Is 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 |
Delmore Schwartz
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