| A | B |
| Metaphor | Compares the factory workers to spiders |
| imagery | human spiders spinning a web of rope |
| "Cobwebs" | images spun in the speakers imagination |
| Simile | compares the factory to a large ship |
| Ropewalk | rope factory |
| nulk | ship |
| nemp | fibrous plant used to make rope |
| mountebanks | people who attracted audienceswith jokes and stories, and tricked victims out of money. |
| "sunshine" | positive feelings |
| "sunshine and shadow" | balances of opposites |
| "shadow" | negative experiences |
| Fowlers | hunters of wild birds |
| angler | one who fishes with hook and line |
| line and lead | weighted rope tossed over the side of a boat to measure water depth |
| Tan | tannin, a chemical used to turn animal hide into leather |
| Gallow tree | post and croosbar on which criminals were executed by hanging |