Dr Sam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDCBEFEGHIIH JKLLKMENEBHOOH PQRRQSETEUHVVH EWXXWBYZYEYA2B2B2YTo Miss Grace King | A |
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Down in the old French quarter | B |
Just out of Rampart street | C |
I wend my way | D |
At close of day | D |
Unto the quaint retreat | C |
Where lives the Voodoo Doctor | B |
By some esteemed a sham | E |
Yet I'll declare there's none elsewhere | F |
So skilled as Doctor Sam | E |
With the claws of a deviled crawfish | G |
The juice of the prickly prune | H |
And the quivering dew | I |
From a yarb that grew | I |
In the light of a midnight moon | H |
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I never should have known him | J |
But for the colored folk | K |
That here obtain | L |
And ne'er in vain | L |
That wizard's art invoke | K |
For when the Eye that's Evil | M |
Would him and his'n damn | E |
The negro's grief gets quick relief | N |
Of Hoodoo Doctor Sam | E |
With the caul of an alligator | B |
The plume of an unborn loon | H |
And the poison wrung | O |
From a serpent's tongue | O |
By the light of a midnight moon | H |
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In all neurotic ailments | P |
I hear that he excels | Q |
And he insures | R |
Immediate cures | R |
Of weird uncanny spells | Q |
The most unruly patient | S |
Gets docile as a lamb | E |
And is freed from ill by the potent skill | T |
Of Hoodoo Doctor Sam | E |
Feathers of strangled chickens | U |
Moss from the dank lagoon | H |
And plasters wet | V |
With spider sweat | V |
In the light of a midnight moon | H |
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They say when nights are grewsome | E |
And hours are oh so late | W |
Old Sam steals out | X |
And hunts about | X |
For charms that hoodoos hate | W |
That from the moaning river | B |
And from the haunted glen | Y |
He silently brings what eerie things | Z |
Give peace to hoodooed men | Y |
The tongue of a piebald 'possum | E |
The tooth of a senile 'coon | Y |
The buzzard's breath that smells of death | A2 |
And the film that lies | B2 |
On a lizard's eyes | B2 |
In the light of a midnight moon | Y |
Eugene Field
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