Again a reference may be intended to the destruction of the home by some legal trick--some unscrupulous method of cheating the daughter out of the property bequeathed to her by her parents.
Notice a few pretty words here.

The "pearled" as applied to the spider's thread gives an intimation of the effect produced by dew on the thread, but there is also the suggestion of tears upon the thread work woven by the hands of the girl.

The participle "anchored" is very pretty in its use here as an adjective, because this word is now especially used for rope-fastening, whether the rope be steel or hemp; and particularly for the fastening of the cables of a bridge.

The last stanza might be paraphrased thus: "Sister Spider, I know more than you--and that knowledge makes me unhappy.

You do not know, when you are spinning your little web, that you are really weaving your own shroud.