Wind on the Hill

Alan Alexander Milne 1882 – 1956



No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.

It's flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn't keep up with it,
Not if I ran.

But if I stopped holding
The string of my kite,
It would blow with the wind
For a day and a night.

And then when I found it,
Wherever it blew,
I should know that the wind
Had been going there too.

So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes...
But where the wind comes from
Nobody knows.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Scheme xAbA xcdc xefe dgfg xAbA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 448
Words 97
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Alan Alexander Milne

Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. more…

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