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King Bruce of Scotland, who was feeling sad and discouraged after failing multiple times to achieve a great deed for his people.

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King Bruce was in 'low despair' and felt very sad because he had tried many times to do something great for his people but couldn't succeed. He was ready to give up.

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A spider that was trying to reach its cobweb home high up on the ceiling. The spider kept falling but never gave up trying.

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The spider made nine brave attempts before finally succeeding on the tenth try.

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'. In the poem, the spider's climbing represents King Bruce's struggles - both keep trying despite failures.

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Endeavour means to make a serious attempt or effort to achieve something. In the poem, the spider showed 'strong endeavour' by trying hard to climb up.

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The rhyme scheme is ABAB, where the first and third lines rhyme, and the second and fourth lines rhyme in each stanza.

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Examples of alliteration include: 'silken, silmy clue', 'steadily, steadily', 'strong sprawl', and other repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.