The Silkworm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KLMNOOOPPQQ| The beams of April ere it goes | A |
| A worm scarce visible disclose | A |
| All winter long content to dwell | B |
| The tenant of his native shell | B |
| The same prolific season gives | C |
| The sustenance by which he lives | C |
| The mulberry leaf a simple store | D |
| That serves him till he needs no more | D |
| For his dimensions once complete | E |
| Thenceforth none ever sees him eat | E |
| Though till his growing time be past | F |
| Scarce ever is he seen to fast | F |
| That hour arrived his work begins | G |
| He spins and weaves and weaves and spins | G |
| Till circle upon circle wound | H |
| Careless around him and around | H |
| Conceals him with a veil though slight | I |
| Impervious to the keenest sight | I |
| Thus self enclosed as in a cask | J |
| At length he finishes his task | J |
| And though a worm when he was lost | K |
| Or caterpillar at the most | L |
| When next we see him wings he wears | M |
| And in papilio pomp appears | N |
| Becomes oviparous supplies | O |
| With future worms and future flies | O |
| The next ensuing year and dies | O |
| Well were it for the world if all | P |
| Who creep about this earthly ball | P |
| Though shorter lived than most he be | Q |
| Were useful in their kind as he | Q |
William Cowper
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