Doctor Frolic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKJ LJMJ NOPQ DNRS| Felicity the healer isn t young | A |
| And you don t look him up unless you need him | B |
| Clown s eyes Pope s nose a mouth for dirty stories | C |
| He made his bundle in the Great Depression | D |
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| And now a jovial immigrant success | E |
| In baggy pinstripes he winks and wheezes gossip | F |
| Village stories that could lift your hair | G |
| Or lance a boil the small town dirt the dope | H |
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| The fishy deals and incestuous combinations | I |
| The husband and the wife of his wife s brother | J |
| The hospital contract the certificate | K |
| A realist and hardy omnivore | J |
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| He strolls the jetties when the month is right | L |
| With a knife and lemons in his pocket after | J |
| Live mussels from among the smelly rocks | M |
| Preventative of impotence and goitre | J |
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| And as though the sight of tissue healing crooked | N |
| Pleased him like the ocean s vaginal taste | O |
| He ll stitch your thumb up so it shows for life | P |
| And where he once was the only quack in town | Q |
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| We all have heard his half lame joke the one | D |
| About the operation that succeeded | N |
| The tangy line that keeps that clever eye | R |
| So merry in the punchinello face | S |
Robert Pinsky
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