This is an analysis of The Mill by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

The miller's wife had waited long,
The tea was cold, the fire was dead;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXXcX dededede fgfgcece
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 01011101 011101011 11110101 01111111 10111010100 1111111 11110101 11011101 10011111 11111111 10011101 11010001 11111101 01011111 11110001 11110111 10110100 11110001 11100110 11011111 11010101 11010001 11011101 01110001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the, and