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A Noiseless Patient Spider by: Walt Whitman
 * Poem written in free verse
 * First stanza speaks about spiders spinning a web
 * The hard work and time it takes to complete a web "Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them."
 * Second stanza speaks to the spider
 * Praising them for the work they put forth to complete a web and the risks they take "Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,"
 * Whitman repeats "O, my soul" to emphasize the greatness of the web and build emotion

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