Words, groups and eyes

Words from the poem:

• myriad: a very large number ('a myriad shells');
• deft: skilful and quick ('the deft spider');
• woven: from 'weave';
• marvellous: wonderful, amazing;
• surpass: go beyond, be better than;
• stumble: trip, or blunder into something.

Use them: 'With his deft description, the author has written the story beautifully woven with fascinating details… the marvellous storytelling… the myriad emotions… the reader will stumble upon unexpected twists that surpass all our understanding.'

Collective nouns. The poem has 'a hive of bees'. More:

• a swarm of locusts;
• a constellation of stars;
• a grove of trees;
• a troupe of dancers;
• a battalion of soldiers;
• a fleet of ships.

Many describe how the group behaves: a swarm moves as one mass, a constellation makes a pattern, a troupe performs together.

Idioms with 'eye' (the poem ends 'eyeing the moon'):

• the apple of one's eye: someone very precious;
• in the blink of an eye: very quickly;
• keep an eye on: watch closely;
• turn a blind eye: pretend not to notice (usually something wrong);
• see eye to eye: agree;
• a bird's-eye view: a view from above, of the whole thing.

The suffix -ish makes an adjective meaning 'like that': tiger → tigerish (claws like a tiger's); girl → girlish, boy → boyish, book → bookish.

Not every noun takes -ish: silk → silky, water → watery. And glass, moon and scrap take no -ish at all.