The Little Fat Doctor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF BGBG GHGH BBB| He seemed so strange to me every way | A |
| In manner and form and size | B |
| From the boy I knew but yesterday | A |
| I could hardly believe my eyes | B |
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| To hear his name called over there | C |
| My memory thrilled with glee | D |
| And leaped to picture him young and fair | C |
| In youth as he used to be | D |
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| But looking only as glad eyes can | E |
| For the boy I knew of yore | F |
| I smiled on a portly little man | E |
| I had never seen before | F |
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| Grave as a judge in courtliness | B |
| Professor like and bland | G |
| A little fat doctor and nothing less | B |
| With his hat in his kimboed hand | G |
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| But how we talked old times and 'chaffed' | G |
| Each other with 'Minnie' and 'Jim' | H |
| And how the little fat doctor laughed | G |
| And how I laughed with him | H |
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| 'And it's pleasant ' I thought 'though I yearn to see | B |
| The face of the youth that was | B |
| To know no boy could smile on me | B |
| As the little fat doctor does ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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