The Old Home By The Mill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD AAEE FGAH EIEEE JJEE| This is 'The old Home by the Mill' far we still call it so | A |
| Although the old mill roof and sill is all gone long ago | A |
| The old home though and old folks and the old spring and a few | B |
| Old cat tails weeds and hartychokes is left to welcome you | B |
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| Here Marg'et fetch the man a tin to drink out of' Our spring | C |
| Keeps kindo sorto cavin' in but don't 'taste' anything | C |
| She's kindo agein' Marg'et is 'the old process ' like me | D |
| All ham stringed up with rheumatiz and on in seventy three | D |
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| Jes' me and Marg'et lives alone here like in long ago | A |
| The childern all put off and gone and married don't you know | A |
| One's millin' way out West somewhere two other miller boys | E |
| In Minnyopolis they air and one's in Illinoise | E |
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| The oldest gyrl the first that went married and died right here | F |
| The next lives in Winn's Settlement for purt' nigh thirty year | G |
| And youngest one was allus far the old home here but no | A |
| Her man turns in and he packs her 'way off to Idyho | H |
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| I don't miss them like Marg'et does 'cause I got her you see | E |
| And when she pines for them that's 'cause she's only jes' got | I |
| me | E |
| I laugh and joke her 'bout it all But talkin' sense I'll say | E |
| When she was tuk so bad last Fall I laughed the t'other way | E |
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| I haint so favorble impressed 'bout dyin' but ef I | J |
| Found I was only second best when us two come to die | J |
| I'd 'dopt the 'new process' in full ef Marg'et died you see | E |
| I'd jes' crawl in my grave and pull the green grass over me | E |
James Whitcomb Riley
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