The Family Doctor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFGGHHDDIIJKAA LLDD| I've tried the high toned specialists who doctor folks to day | A |
| I've heard the throat man whisper low 'Come on now let us spray' | B |
| I've sat in fancy offices and waited long my turn | C |
| And paid for fifteen minutes what it took a week to earn | C |
| But while these scientific men are kindly one and all | D |
| I miss the good old doctor that my mother used to call | D |
| The old time family doctor Oh I am sorry that he's gone | E |
| He ushered us into the world and knew us every one | F |
| He didn't have to ask a lot of questions for he knew | G |
| Our histories from birth and all the ailments we'd been through | G |
| And though as children small we feared the medicines he'd send | H |
| The old time family doctor grew to be our dearest friend | H |
| No hour too late no night too rough for him to heed our call | D |
| He knew exactly where to hang his coat up in the hall | D |
| He knew exactly where to go which room upstairs to find | I |
| The patient he'd been called to see and saying 'Never mind | I |
| I'll run up there myself and see what's causing all the fuss ' | J |
| It seems we grew to look and lean on him as one of us | K |
| He had a big and kindly heart a fine and tender way | A |
| And more than once I've wished that I could call him in to day | A |
| The specialists are clever men and busy men I know | L |
| And haven't time to doctor as they did long years ago | L |
| But some day he may come again the friend that we can call | D |
| The good old family doctor who will love us one and all | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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