The Doctors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEF F| A | |
| - | |
| The selfsame patient put to test | B |
| Two doctors Fear the worst and Hope the best | B |
| The latter hoped the former did maintain | C |
| The man would take all medicine in vain | C |
| By different cures the patient was beset | D |
| But erelong cancell'd nature's debt | D |
| While nursed | E |
| As was prescribed by Fear the worst | E |
| But over the disease both triumph'd still | F |
| Said one 'I well foresaw his death ' | - |
| 'Yes ' said the other 'but my pill | F |
| Would certainly have saved his breath ' | - |
Jean De La Fontaine
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