Elegy, vs. 2

I enjoy the symmetrical nature of the first two lines of this stanza (well, the art is in making them a little assymetrical, isn't it?), breaking up into the heady specificity of a single beetle, and the way the first line calls for a great sweeping movement, echoed in the next line but smaller and then fixed to a tiny point in the third and shifting the weight in the fourth. There's a physical score to this stanza that pulls you along into the weight shift and I find it one of the easiest stanzas to remember! Of course, it helps that it is also one of the first I learned...