To -docâ? Wylie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBDB EBBB FBFB| THOUGH doctors may your name discard | A |
| And say you physicked vilely | B |
| I would I were as good a bard | A |
| As you a doctor Wylie | B |
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| How often when your skill subdued | C |
| The fever ranging highly | B |
| You won a bushman s gratitude | C |
| Though little more Doc Wylie | B |
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| How oft across the regions wide | D |
| Where scrub for many a mile lay | B |
| The bushman rode as bushmen ride | D |
| To seek your aid Doc Wylie | B |
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| But now when bushman s wife or child | E |
| Lies ill and suffering direly | B |
| He ll need to ride a weary while | B |
| Before he finds Doc Wylie | B |
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| I hope where they have made your bed | F |
| And where these verses I lay | B |
| They ll raise a board above your head | F |
| And write your name Doc Wylie | B |
Henry Lawson
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