The Two Windmills. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBBDD EEFFGGHHII BBHH JJKKLL AAMM NNCCFF| Two neighbors living on a hill | A |
| Had each and side by side a mill | A |
| The one was Jones a thrifty wight | B |
| Whose mill in every wind went right | B |
| The storm and tempest vainly spent | C |
| Their rage upon it round it went | C |
| E'en when the summer breeze was light | B |
| The whirling wings performed their flight | B |
| And hence a village saying rose | D |
| As sure as Jones's mill it goes | D |
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| Not so with neighbor Smith's close by | E |
| Full half the time it would not ply | E |
| Save only when the wind was west | F |
| Still as a post it stood at rest | F |
| By every tempest it was battered | G |
| By every thundergust 'twas shattered | G |
| Through many a rent the rain did filter | H |
| And fair or foul 'twas out of kilter | H |
| And thus the saying came at last | I |
| Smith's mill is made for folks that fast | I |
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| Now who can read this riddle right | B |
| Two mills are standing on a height | B |
| One whirling brisk whate'er the weather | H |
| The other idle weeks together | H |
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| Come gentle reader lend thine ear | J |
| And thou the simple truth shalt hear | J |
| And mark for here the moral lurks | K |
| Smith held to faith but not to works | K |
| While Jones believed in both and so | L |
| By faith and practice made it go | L |
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| Smith prayed and straight sent in his bill | A |
| Expecting Heaven to tend his mill | A |
| And grumbled sore whene'er he found | M |
| That wheels ungreased would not go round | M |
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| Not so with Jones for though as prayerful | N |
| To grease his wheels he e'er was careful | N |
| And healed with ready stitch each rent | C |
| That ruthless time or tempest sent | C |
| And thus by works his faith expressed | F |
| Good neighbor Jones by Heaven was blessed | F |
Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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