The Mill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLML| The miller's wife had waited long | A |
| The tea was cold the fire was dead | B |
| And there might yet be nothing wrong | A |
| In how he went and what he said | B |
| There are no millers any more | C |
| Was all that she had heard him say | D |
| And he had lingered at the door | C |
| So long that it seemed yesterday | D |
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| Sick with a fear that had no form | E |
| She knew that she was there at last | F |
| And in the mill there was a warm | E |
| And mealy fragrance of the past | F |
| What else there was would only seem | G |
| To say again what he had meant | H |
| And what was hanging from a beam | G |
| Would not have heeded where she went | H |
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| And if she thought it followed her | I |
| She may have reasoned in the dark | J |
| That one way of the few there were | I |
| Would hide her and would leave no mark | J |
| Black water smooth above the weir | K |
| Like starry velvet in the night | L |
| Though ruffled once would soon appear | M |
| The same as ever to the sight | L |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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