Kingry's Mill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFBBGG CAAAAAHH IIJJKKAA LLGGKKAA AAMNCCOO PPAAAAAA QQJJAAEE RRSSAATT KKRRAAGG| On old Brandywine about | A |
| Where White's Lots is now laid out | A |
| And the old crick narries down | B |
| To the ditch that splits the town | B |
| Kingry's Mill stood Hardly see | C |
| Where the old dam ust to be | C |
| Shallor long dry trought o' grass | D |
| Where the old race ust to pass | D |
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| That's be'n forty years ago | E |
| Forty years o' frost and snow | E |
| Forty years o' shade and shine | F |
| Sence them boyhood days o' mine | F |
| All the old landmarks o' town | B |
| Changed about er rotted down | B |
| Where's the Tanyard Where's the Still | G |
| Tell me where's old Kingry's Mill | G |
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| Don't seem furder back to me | C |
| I'll be dogg'd Than yisterd'y | A |
| Since us fellers in bare feet | A |
| And straw hats went through the wheat | A |
| Cuttin' 'crost the shortest shoot | A |
| Fer that air old ellum root | A |
| Jest above the mill dam where | H |
| The blame' cars now crosses there | H |
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| Through the willers down the crick | I |
| We could see the old mill stick | I |
| Its red gable up as if | J |
| It jest knowed we'd stol'd the skiff | J |
| See the winders in the sun | K |
| Blink like they wuz wonderun' | K |
| What the miller ort to do | A |
| With sich boys as me and you | A |
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| But old Kingry Who could fear | L |
| That old chap with all his cheer | L |
| Leanin' at the window sill | G |
| Er the half door o' the mill | G |
| Swoppin' lies and pokin' fun | K |
| 'N jigglin' like his hoppers done | K |
| Laughin' grists o' gold and red | A |
| Right out o' the wagon bed | A |
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| What did he keer where we went | A |
| 'Jest keep out o' devilment | A |
| And don't fool around the belts | M |
| Bolts ner burrs ner nothin' else | N |
| 'Bout the blame machinery | C |
| And that's all I ast ' says ee | C |
| Then we'd climb the stairs and play | O |
| In the bran bins half the day | O |
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| Rickollect the dusty wall | P |
| And the spider webs and all | P |
| Rickollect the trimblin' spout | A |
| Where the meal come josslln' out | A |
| Stand and comb yer fingers through | A |
| The fool truck an hour er two | A |
| Felt so sorto' warm like and | A |
| Soothin' to a feller's hand | A |
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| Climb high up above the stream | Q |
| And 'coon' out the wobbly beam | Q |
| And peek down from out the lof' | J |
| Where the weather boards was off | J |
| Gee mun nee w'y it takes grit | A |
| Even jest to think of it | A |
| Lookin' 'way down there below | E |
| On the worter roarin' so | E |
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| Rickollect the flume and wheel | R |
| And the worter slosh and reel | R |
| And jest ravel out in froth | S |
| Flossier'n satin cloth | S |
| Rickollect them paddles jest | A |
| Knock the bubbles galley west | A |
| And plunge under and come up | T |
| Drippin' like a worter pup | T |
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| And to see them old things gone | K |
| That I onc't was bettin' on | K |
| In rale p'int o' fact I feel | R |
| kindo' like that worter wheel | R |
| Sorto' drippy like and wet | A |
| Round the eyes but paddlin' yet | A |
| And in mem'ry loafin' still | G |
| Down around old Kingry's Mill | G |
James Whitcomb Riley
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