Most authors tend to leave concealed messages in their poems or novels. "Bruce and the spider", a poem written by Bernard Barton, has a hidden message to have a lot of patience and to never give up. In this poem, Robert Bruce fights six battles and fails to win. He went to his cottage to rest and saw a little spider try to spin a web six times and on the seventh, it triumphs and spins a web. Bruce I s inspired and tries to do better after seeing such a small creature never giving up. Proof of the message of being patient and to not give up can be found in the specific lines of the poem.

One individual and specific line in this detailed poem helps support the author's message to be persistent. This line can be found in the third stanza, ninth and tenth line...