A Garden Idyl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFGGHHIIJJKKLMNNOOPP QQRRSSTTPPUU VVVVWWXXYYZZV IIA2A2B2B2C2D2E2F2G2 G2H2H2 I2I2J2E2K2K2L2L2M2H2 N2N2VVVVO2O2 P2P2Q2Q2R2R2VVS2S2 TTT2T2NU2With sagest craft Arachne worked | A |
Her web and at a corner lurked | A |
Awaiting what should plump her soon | B |
To case it in the death cocoon | B |
Sagaciously her home she chose | C |
For visits that would never close | D |
Inside my chalet porch her feast | E |
Plucked all the winds but chill North east | E |
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The finished structure bar on bar | F |
Had snatched from light to form a star | F |
And struck on sight when quick with dews | G |
Like music of the very Muse | G |
Great artists pass our single sense | H |
We hear in seeing strung to tense | H |
Then haply marvel groan mayhap | I |
To think such beauty means a trap | I |
But Nature's genius even man's | J |
At best is practical in plans | J |
Subservient to the needy thought | K |
However rare the weapon wrought | K |
As long as Nature holds it good | L |
To urge her creatures' quest for food | M |
Will beauty stamp the just intent | N |
Of weapons upon service bent | N |
For beauty is a flower of roots | O |
Embedded lower than our boots | O |
Out of the primal strata springs | P |
And shows for crown of useful things | P |
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Arachne's dream of prey to size | Q |
Aspired so she could nigh despise | Q |
The puny specks the breezes round | R |
Supplied and let them shake unwound | R |
Assured of her fat fly to come | S |
Perhaps a blue the spider's plum | S |
Who takes the fatal odds in fight | T |
And gives repast an appetite | T |
By plunging whizzing till his wings | P |
Are webbed and in the lists he swings | P |
A shrouded lump for her to see | U |
Her banquet in her victory | U |
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This matron of the unnumbered threads | V |
One day of dandelions' heads | V |
Distributing their gray perruques | V |
Up every gust I watched with looks | V |
Discreet beside the chalet door | W |
And gracefully a light wind bore | W |
Direct upon my webster's wall | X |
A monster in the form of ball | X |
The mildest captive ever snared | Y |
That neither struggled nor despaired | Y |
On half the net invading hung | Z |
And plain as in her mother tongue | Z |
While low the weaver cursed her lures | V |
Remarked 'You have me I am yours ' | - |
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Thrice magnified in phantom shape | I |
Her dream of size she saw agape | I |
Midway the vast round raying beard | A2 |
A desiccated midge appeared | A2 |
Whose body pricked the name of meal | B2 |
Whose hair had growth in earth's unreal | B2 |
Provocative of dread and wrath | C2 |
Contempt and horror in one froth | D2 |
Inextricable insensible | E2 |
His poison presence there would dwell | F2 |
Declaring him her dream fulfilled | G2 |
A catch to compliment the skilled | G2 |
And she reduced to beaky skin | H2 |
Disgraceful among kith and kin | H2 |
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Against her corner humped and aged | I2 |
Arachne wrinkled past enraged | I2 |
Beyond disgust or hope in guile | J2 |
Ridiculously volatile | E2 |
He seemed to her last spark of mind | K2 |
And that in pallid ash declined | K2 |
Beneath the blow by knowledge dealt | L2 |
Wherein throughout her frame she felt | L2 |
That he the light wind's libertine | M2 |
Without a scoff without a grin | H2 |
And mannered like the courtly few | N2 |
Who merely danced when light winds blew | N2 |
Impervious to beak and claws | V |
Tradition's ruinous Whitebeard was | V |
Of whom as actors in old scenes | V |
Had grannam weavers warned their weans | V |
With word that less than feather weight | O2 |
He smote the web like bolt of Fate | O2 |
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This muted drama hour by hour | P2 |
I watched amid a world in flower | P2 |
Ere yet Autumnal threads had laid | Q2 |
Their gray blue o'er the grass's blade | Q2 |
And still along the garden run | R2 |
The blindworm stretched him drunk of sun | R2 |
Arachne crouched unmoved perchance | V |
Her visitor performed a dance | V |
She puckered thinner he the same | S2 |
As when on that light wind he came | S2 |
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Next day was told what deeds of night | T |
Were done the web had vanished quite | T |
With it the strange opposing pair | T2 |
And listless waved on vacant air | T2 |
For her adieu to heart's content | N |
A solitary filament | U2 |
George Meredith
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