The miller's wife had waited long,

The tea was cold, the fire was dead;
And there might yet be nothing wrong
In how he went and what he said:
"There are no millers any more,"5
Was all that she had heard him say;
And he had lingered at the door
So long that it seemed yesterday.

Sick with a fear that had no form
She knew that she was there at last; 10
And in the mill there was a warm
And mealy fragrance of the past.
What else there was would only seem
To say again what he had meant;
And what was hanging from a beam15
Would not have heeded where she went.

And if she thought it followed her,
She may have reasoned in the dark
That one way of the few there were
Would hide her and would leave no mark: 20
Black water, smooth above the weir
Like starry velvet in the night,
Though ruffled once, would soon appear
The same as ever to the sight.

What is the rhyme scheme of the first stanza in The Mill by Edwin Arlington Robinson?

A)ABABCDCD

B)AABBCCDD

C)ABCDABCD

D)ABCABCDD

b ? I don't know this one

its A

Which lines rhyme with each other? That's what creates the rhyme scheme.

Yes, A.

Take a look at the words at the end of each line. Line one rhymes with line three, line two with line four, etc. So, ABAB. Line five also rhymes with which line? Six with which? It's every other line. ABABCDCD. A is lines one and three, B lines two and four, etc. If one and two rhymed, it would be AA, etc. Do you see how this works?

To determine the rhyme scheme of a poem, you need to analyze the end sounds of each line. Let's take a closer look at the first stanza of the poem:

The miller's wife had waited long, (A)
The tea was cold, the fire was dead; (B)
And there might yet be nothing wrong (A)
In how he went and what he said: (B)
"There are no millers any more," (C)
Was all that she had heard him say; (D)
And he had lingered at the door (C)
So long that it seemed yesterday. (D)

Now, let's assign a letter to each line based on its end sound. We'll use the same letter for lines that share the same end sound:

A: long, wrong
B: dead, said
C: more, door
D: say, yesterday

The end sounds in the first stanza follow the pattern ABAB CDCD, which means the correct answer is option A) ABABCDCD. Thus, each line with the same letter represents a rhyme that corresponds with another line of the same letter.