The Bitter Herb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGAG AHIH| O bitter herb Forgetfulness | A |
| I search for you in vain | B |
| You are the only growing thing | C |
| Can take away my pain | B |
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| When I was young this bitter herb | D |
| Grew wild on every hill | E |
| I should have plucked a store of it | F |
| And kept it by me still | E |
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| I hunt through all the meadows | A |
| Where once I wandered free | G |
| But the rare herb Forgetfulness | A |
| It hides away from me | G |
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| O bitter herb Forgetfulness | A |
| Where is your drowsy breath | H |
| Oh can it be your seed has blown | I |
| Far as the Vales of Death | H |
Jeanne Robert Foster
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