The Old Herb-man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDEEF GGHHI JJKKC LLMME| On the barren hillside lone he sat | A |
| On his head he wore a tattered hat | A |
| In his hand he bore a crooked staff | B |
| Never heard I laughter like his laugh | B |
| On the barren hillside thistle hoar | C |
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| Cracked his laughter sounded harsh as woe | D |
| As the croaking thinned of a crow | D |
| At his back hung pinned a wallet old | E |
| Bulged with roots and simples caked with mould | E |
| On the barren hillside in the wind | F |
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| Roots of twisted twin leaf sassafras | G |
| Bloodroot tightly whipped 'round with grass | G |
| Adder's tongue and tipped brown and black | H |
| Yellowroot and snakeroot filled his pack | H |
| On the barren hillside winter stripped | I |
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| There is nothing sadder than old age | J |
| Nothing saddens more than that stage | J |
| When forlornly poor bent with toil | K |
| One must starve or wring life from the soil | K |
| From the barren hillside wild and hoar | C |
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| Down the barren hillside slow he went | L |
| Cursing at the cold bowed and bent | L |
| With his bag of mould herbs and roots | M |
| In his clay stained garments clay caked boots | M |
| Down the barren hillside poor and old | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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