The Jolly Miller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCD EE FAF A GHIH JJKDI AAA C AAALA M ANAN| It was a Jolly Miller lived on the River Dee | A |
| He looked upon his piller and there he found a flea | A |
| 'O Mr Flea you have bit' me | A |
| And you shall shorely die ' | B |
| So he scrunched his bones against the stones | C |
| And there he let him lie | D |
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| Twas then the Jolly Miller he laughed and told his wife | E |
| And she laughed fit to kill her and dropped her carvin' knife | E |
| 'O Mr Flea ' 'Ho ho ' 'Tee hee ' | - |
| They both laughed fit to kill | F |
| Until the sound did almost drownd | A |
| The rumble of the mill | F |
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| 'Laugh on my Jolly Miller and Missus Miller too | A |
| But there's a weeping willer will soon wave over you ' | - |
| The voice was all so awful small | G |
| So very small and slim | H |
| He durst' infer that it was her | I |
| Ner her infer 'twas him | H |
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| That night the Jolly Miller says he 'It's Wifey dear | J |
| That cat o' yourn I'd kill her her actions is so queer | J |
| She rubbin' 'ginst the grindstone legs | K |
| And yowlin' at the sky | D |
| And I 'low the moon haint greener | I |
| Than the yaller of her eye ' | - |
| - | |
| And as the Jolly Miller went chuckle un to bed | A |
| Was Somepin jerked his piller from underneath his head | A |
| 'O Wife ' says he on easi lee | A |
| 'Fetch here that lantern there ' | - |
| But Somepin moans in thunder tones | C |
| ' You tetch it ef you dare ' | - |
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| 'Twas then the Jolly Miller he trimbled and he quailed | A |
| And his wife choked until her breath come back 'n' she wailed | A |
| And ' O ' cried she 'it is the Flea | A |
| All white and pale and wann | L |
| He's got you in his clutches and | A |
| He's bigger than a man ' | - |
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| ' Ho ho my Jolly Miller ' fer 'twas the Flea fer shore | M |
| 'I reckon you'll not rack my bones ner scrunch 'em any more ' | - |
| And then the Ghost he grabbed him clos't | A |
| With many a ghastly smile | N |
| And from the doorstep stooped and hopped | A |
| About four hundred mile | N |
James Whitcomb Riley
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Kathy Ayres: In the mid-1960s, The Robbs, a rock band from Anne Arbor, MI redid this song with a wonderful melody and beat, and created a fascinating combination of British folk song and James Whitcomb Riley poem. They were overlooked as a band, but went on to grace the music business as record producers and nurturers of talent.
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