Herbs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDD EFFEGGHH EIIEJJKK LM MLNNOO| A serviceable thing | A |
| Is fennel mint or balm | B |
| Kept in the thrifty calm | B |
| Of hollows in the spring | A |
| Or by old houses pent | C |
| Dear is its ancient scent | C |
| To folk that love the days forgot | D |
| Nor think that God is not | D |
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| Sage lavender and rue | E |
| For body's hurt and ill | F |
| For fever and for chill | F |
| Rosemary strange with dew | E |
| For sorrow and its smart | G |
| For breaking of the heart | G |
| Yet pain dearth tears all come to dust | H |
| As even the herbs must | H |
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| Life everlasting too | E |
| Windless poignant and sere | I |
| That blows in the old year | I |
| Townsmen for me and you | E |
| Why fret for wafting airs | J |
| Why haste to sell our wares | J |
| Captains and clerks this shall befall | K |
| This is the end of all | K |
| - | |
| Oh this the end indeed | L |
| Oh unforgotten things | M |
| - | |
| Gone out of all the springs | M |
| The quest the dream the creed | L |
| Gone out of all the lands | N |
| And yet safe in God's hands | N |
| For shall the dull herbs live again | O |
| And not the sons of men | O |
Lizette Woodworth Reese
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