My Dentist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDCDEFEF GHGHIJIJ KLKLMNMN OPOPQIQI AAII| Sitting in the dentist's chair | A |
| Wishing that I wasn't there | A |
| To forget and pass the time | B |
| I have made this bit of rhyme | B |
| - | |
| I had a rendez vous at ten | C |
| I rushed to get in line | D |
| But found a lot of dames and men | C |
| Had waited there since nine | D |
| I stared at them then in an hour | E |
| Was blandly ushered in | F |
| But though my face was grim and sour | E |
| He met me with a grin | F |
| - | |
| He told me of his horse of blood | G |
| And how it also ran | H |
| He plans to own a racing stud | G |
| He seems a wealthy man | H |
| And then he left me there until | I |
| I growled At any rate | J |
| I hope he'll not charge in his bill | I |
| For all the time I wait | J |
| - | |
| His wife has sables on her back | K |
| With jewels she's ablaze | L |
| She drives a stately Cadillac | K |
| And I'm the mug who pays | L |
| At least I'm one of those who peer | M |
| With pessimistic gloom | N |
| At magazines of yester year | M |
| In his damn waiting room | N |
| - | |
| I am a Christian Scientist | O |
| I don't believe in pain | P |
| My dentist had a powerful wrist | O |
| He tries and tries in vain | P |
| To make me grunt or groan or squeal | Q |
| With probe or rasp or drill | I |
| But oh what agony I feel | Q |
| When HE PRESENTS HIS BILL | I |
| - | |
| Sitting in the dental chair | A |
| Don't you wish you weren't there | A |
| Well your cup of woe to fill | I |
| Just think of his infernal bill | I |
Robert William Service
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