Dr. Doddridge's Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABAB ACAC DEDE FGFG HIHI AJAJ DKDK| What you Dr Doddridge's dog and not know who made you | A |
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| My little dog who blessed you | A |
| With such white toothy pegs | B |
| And who was it that dressed you | A |
| In such a lot of legs | B |
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| Perhaps he never told you | A |
| Perhaps you know quite well | C |
| And beg me not to scold you | A |
| For you can't speak to tell | C |
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| I'll tell you little brother | D |
| In case you do not know | E |
| One only not another | D |
| Could make us two just so | E |
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| You love me Quiet I'm proving | F |
| It must be God above | G |
| That filled those eyes with loving | F |
| He was the first to love | G |
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| One day he'll stop all sadness | H |
| Hark to the nightingale | I |
| Oh blessed God of gladness | H |
| Come doggie wag your tail | I |
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| That's Thank you God He gave you | A |
| Of life this little taste | J |
| And with more life he'll save you | A |
| Not let you go to waste | J |
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| He says now Live together | D |
| And share your bite and sup | K |
| And then he'll say Come hither | D |
| And lift us both high up | K |
George Macdonald
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