... three couplets, representative of the three questions that Frost poses to the reader. The rhyme scheme for the couplets is ac, aa, cc, respectively. It is written in the first person point of view, Robert Frost being the speaker. The setting is sometime during the morning hours of the day. The octave describes a "dimpled spider, fat and white" ( 1 ) sitting "on a white heal-all, holding up a moth" ( 2 ). All three of the poem's main characters are derived from these first two lines; the spider, the flower, and the moth. It is important to note that all three are described as being white. Spiders are typically a dark color, perhaps black, and personify evil. The fact that this spider is white is important because it makes the spider appear pure and good. The flower is a heal all, a low growing, spreading, perennial of the mint ...

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