Upon A Spider Catching A Fly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACC DEFGG HHIJK HHHHH CLMHH HNHNN OPOPP QQQQQ HHHHH RCHNS| Thou sorrow venom Elfe | A |
| Is this thy play | B |
| To spin a web out of thyselfe | A |
| To Catch a Fly | C |
| For Why | C |
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| I saw a pettish wasp | D |
| Fall foule therein | E |
| Whom yet thy Whorle pins did not clasp | F |
| Lest he should fling | G |
| His sting | G |
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| But as affraid remote | H |
| Didst stand hereat | H |
| And with thy little fingers stroke | I |
| And gently tap | J |
| His back | K |
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| Thus gently him didst treate | H |
| Lest he should pet | H |
| And in a froppish aspish heate | H |
| Should greatly fret | H |
| Thy net | H |
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| Whereas the silly Fly | C |
| Caught by its leg | L |
| Thou by the throate tookst hastily | M |
| And 'hinde the head | H |
| Bite Dead | H |
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| This goes to pot that not | H |
| Nature doth call | N |
| Strive not above what strength hath got | H |
| Lest in the brawle | N |
| Thou fall | N |
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| This Frey seems thus to us | O |
| Hells Spider gets | P |
| His intrails spun to whip Cords thus | O |
| And wove to nets | P |
| And sets | P |
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| To tangle Adams race | Q |
| In's stratigems | Q |
| To their Destructions spoil'd made base | Q |
| By venom things | Q |
| Damn'd Sins | Q |
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| But mighty Gracious Lord | H |
| Communicate | H |
| Thy Grace to breake the Cord afford | H |
| Us Glorys Gate | H |
| And State | H |
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| We'l Nightingaile sing like | R |
| When pearcht on high | C |
| In Glories Cage thy glory bright | H |
| And thankfully | N |
| For joy | S |
Edward Taylor
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