Keepsake Mill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE CFCF ADAD FFFF| Over the borders a sin without pardon | A |
| Breaking the branches and crawling below | B |
| Out through the breach in the wall of the garden | A |
| Down by the banks of the river we go | B |
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| Here is a mill with the humming of thunder | C |
| Here is the weir with the wonder of foam | D |
| Here is the sluice with the race running under | C |
| Marvellous places though handy to home | D |
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| Sounds of the village grow stiller and stiller | C |
| Stiller the note of the birds on the hill | E |
| Dusty and dim are the eyes of the miller | C |
| Deaf are his ears with the moil of the mill | E |
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| Years may go by and the wheel in the river | C |
| Wheel as it wheels for us children to day | F |
| Wheel and keep roaring and foaming for ever | C |
| Long after all of the boys are away | F |
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| Home for the Indies and home from the ocean | A |
| Heroes and soldiers we all will come home | D |
| Still we shall find the old mill wheel in motion | A |
| Turning and churning that river to foam | D |
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| You with the bean that I gave when we quarrelled | F |
| I with your marble of Saturday last | F |
| Honoured and old and all gaily apparelled | F |
| Here we shall meet and remember the past | F |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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