The Milkmaid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHJ KLKL MNMN| Under a daisied bank | A |
| There stands a rich red ruminating cow | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And hard against her flank | A |
| A cotton hooded milkmaid bends her brow | B |
| - | |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The flowery river ooze | C |
| Upheaves and falls the milk purrs in the pail | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Few pilgrims but would choose | C |
| The peace of such a life in such a vale | D |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp The maid breathes words to vent | E |
| It seems her sense of Nature's scenery | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Of whose life sentiment | G |
| And essence very part itself is she | F |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp She bends a glance of pain | H |
| And at a moment lets escape a tear | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Is it that passing train | H |
| Whose alien whirr offends her country ear | J |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Nay Phyllis does not dwell | K |
| On visual and familiar things like these | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp What moves her is the spell | K |
| Of inner themes and inner poetries | L |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Could but by Sunday morn | M |
| Her gay new gown come meads might dry to dun | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Trains shriek till ears were torn | M |
| If Fred would not prefer that Other One | N |
Thomas Hardy
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