The Vanishing Red Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJIKL MNOPQR KSTUIVCWXY| He is said to have been the last Red man | A |
| In Acton And the Miller is said to have laughed | B |
| If you like to call such a sound a laugh | C |
| But he gave no one else a laugher's license | D |
| For he turned suddenly grave as if to say | E |
| Whose business if I take it on myself | F |
| Whose business but why talk round the barn | G |
| When it's just that I hold with getting a thing done with | H |
| You can't get back and see it as he saw it | I |
| It's too long a story to go into now | J |
| You'd have to have been there and lived it | I |
| They you wouldn't have looked on it as just a matter | K |
| Of who began it between the two races | L |
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| Some guttural exclamation of surprise | M |
| The Red man gave in poking about the mill | N |
| Over the great big thumping shuffling millstone | O |
| Disgusted the Miller physically as coming | P |
| From one who had no right to be heard from | Q |
| Come John he said you want to see the wheel pint | R |
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| He took him down below a cramping rafter | K |
| And showed him through a manhole in the floor | S |
| The water in desperate straits like frantic fish | T |
| Salmon and sturgeon lashing with their tails | U |
| The he shut down the trap door with a ring in it | I |
| That jangled even above the general noise | V |
| And came upstairs alone and gave that laugh | C |
| And said something to a man with a meal sack | W |
| That the man with the meal sack didn't catch then | X |
| Oh yes he showed John the wheel pit all right | Y |
Robert Frost
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