Another Yankee Doodle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HBIBEFJF KLM EFNF OPJQEFRF ISTSEFUF IVWVEFXF YJZJEFVF| Yankee Doodle had a mind | A |
| To whip the Southern traitors | B |
| Because they didn't choose to live | C |
| On codfish and potatoes | D |
| Yankee Doodle doodle doo | E |
| Yankee Doodle dandy | F |
| And to keep his courage up | G |
| He took a drink of brandy | F |
| - | |
| Yankee Doodle said he found | H |
| By all the census figures | B |
| That he could starve the rebels out | I |
| If he could steal their niggers | B |
| Yankee Doodle doodle doo | E |
| Yankee Doodle dandy | F |
| And then he took another drink | J |
| Of gunpowder and brandy | F |
| - | |
| Yankee Doodle made a speech | K |
| 'Twas very full of feeling | L |
| 'I fear ' he says 'I cannot fight | M |
| But I am good at stealing ' | - |
| Yankee Doodle doodle doo | E |
| Yankee Doodle dandy | F |
| Hurrah for Lincoln he's the boy | N |
| To take a drop of brandy | F |
| - | |
| Yankee Doodle drew his sword | O |
| And practiced all the passes | P |
| Come boys we'll take another drink | J |
| When we get to Manassas | Q |
| Yankee Doodle doodle doo | E |
| Yankee Doodle dandy | F |
| They never reached Manassas plain | R |
| And never got the brandy | F |
| - | |
| Yankee Doodle soon found out | I |
| That Bull Run was no trifle | S |
| For if the North knew how to steal | T |
| The South knew how to rifle | S |
| Yankee Doodle doodle doo | E |
| Yankee Doodle dandy | F |
| 'Tis very clear I took too much | U |
| Of that infernal brandy | F |
| - | |
| Yankee Doodle wheeled about | I |
| And scampered off at full run | V |
| And such a race was never seen | W |
| As that he made at Bull Run | V |
| Yankee Doodle doodle doo | E |
| Yankee Doodle dandy | F |
| I haven't time to stop right now | X |
| To take a drop of brandy | F |
| - | |
| Yankee Doodle oh for shame | Y |
| You're always intermeddling | J |
| Let guns alone they're dangerous things | Z |
| You'd better stick to peddling | J |
| Yankee Doodle doodle doo | E |
| Yankee Doodle dandy | F |
| When next I go to Bully Run | V |
| I'll throw away the brandy | F |
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