"Design" by Robert Frost is a Petrarchan sonnet that questions God's design for nature and whether there truly is a design for life which is illustrated through the use of irony, simile and strong images and a rhetorical question. The sonnet is composed of an octave with the ABBAABBA rhyme scheme and a sestina with the ACAACC rhyme scheme. The theme of the poem is written with a sense of admiration for nature, but with a skeptical mind regarding the meaning behind the design of life. The tone at the beginning of the poem is intended to be one of awe rather than somber because the main components of the sonnet: the spider, the moth, the healing flower, and the cloth are all white. The reader is also given a new perspective as the speaker, Robert Frost, observes all of this in the morning. During the first verse, Frost uses euphony to set the scene and tone as he describes the spider as having dimples and on a flower. As the second and third lines continue, the use of simile is depicted when Frost compares a white flower to a satin cloth. A healing flower is usually purple in tone (Kansas grasses), not completely white, as a symbol...