A Garden Idyl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFGGHHIIJJKKLMNNOOPP QQRRSSTTPPUU VVVVWWXXYYZZV IIA2A2B2B2C2D2E2F2G2 G2H2H2 I2I2J2E2K2K2L2L2M2H2 N2N2VVVVO2O2 P2P2Q2Q2R2R2VVS2S2 TTT2T2NU2

With sagest craft Arachne workedA
Her web and at a corner lurkedA
Awaiting what should plump her soonB
To case it in the death cocoonB
Sagaciously her home she choseC
For visits that would never closeD
Inside my chalet porch her feastE
Plucked all the winds but chill North eastE
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The finished structure bar on barF
Had snatched from light to form a starF
And struck on sight when quick with dewsG
Like music of the very MuseG
Great artists pass our single senseH
We hear in seeing strung to tenseH
Then haply marvel groan mayhapI
To think such beauty means a trapI
But Nature's genius even man'sJ
At best is practical in plansJ
Subservient to the needy thoughtK
However rare the weapon wroughtK
As long as Nature holds it goodL
To urge her creatures' quest for foodM
Will beauty stamp the just intentN
Of weapons upon service bentN
For beauty is a flower of rootsO
Embedded lower than our bootsO
Out of the primal strata springsP
And shows for crown of useful thingsP
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Arachne's dream of prey to sizeQ
Aspired so she could nigh despiseQ
The puny specks the breezes roundR
Supplied and let them shake unwoundR
Assured of her fat fly to comeS
Perhaps a blue the spider's plumS
Who takes the fatal odds in fightT
And gives repast an appetiteT
By plunging whizzing till his wingsP
Are webbed and in the lists he swingsP
A shrouded lump for her to seeU
Her banquet in her victoryU
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This matron of the unnumbered threadsV
One day of dandelions' headsV
Distributing their gray perruquesV
Up every gust I watched with looksV
Discreet beside the chalet doorW
And gracefully a light wind boreW
Direct upon my webster's wallX
A monster in the form of ballX
The mildest captive ever snaredY
That neither struggled nor despairedY
On half the net invading hungZ
And plain as in her mother tongueZ
While low the weaver cursed her luresV
Remarked 'You have me I am yours '-
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Thrice magnified in phantom shapeI
Her dream of size she saw agapeI
Midway the vast round raying beardA2
A desiccated midge appearedA2
Whose body pricked the name of mealB2
Whose hair had growth in earth's unrealB2
Provocative of dread and wrathC2
Contempt and horror in one frothD2
Inextricable insensibleE2
His poison presence there would dwellF2
Declaring him her dream fulfilledG2
A catch to compliment the skilledG2
And she reduced to beaky skinH2
Disgraceful among kith and kinH2
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Against her corner humped and agedI2
Arachne wrinkled past enragedI2
Beyond disgust or hope in guileJ2
Ridiculously volatileE2
He seemed to her last spark of mindK2
And that in pallid ash declinedK2
Beneath the blow by knowledge dealtL2
Wherein throughout her frame she feltL2
That he the light wind's libertineM2
Without a scoff without a grinH2
And mannered like the courtly fewN2
Who merely danced when light winds blewN2
Impervious to beak and clawsV
Tradition's ruinous Whitebeard wasV
Of whom as actors in old scenesV
Had grannam weavers warned their weansV
With word that less than feather weightO2
He smote the web like bolt of FateO2
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This muted drama hour by hourP2
I watched amid a world in flowerP2
Ere yet Autumnal threads had laidQ2
Their gray blue o'er the grass's bladeQ2
And still along the garden runR2
The blindworm stretched him drunk of sunR2
Arachne crouched unmoved perchanceV
Her visitor performed a danceV
She puckered thinner he the sameS2
As when on that light wind he cameS2
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Next day was told what deeds of nightT
Were done the web had vanished quiteT
With it the strange opposing pairT2
And listless waved on vacant airT2
For her adieu to heart's contentN
A solitary filamentU2

George Meredith



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