The Picnic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB AACC AADD EEFF GGHH CCII HHFF AAAA HHFF HHAA AAJJ FFHH CCCC HHEE CCHH AAAADe Picknock oud at Spraker's Wood | A |
It melt de soul und fire de plood | A |
Id sofly slid from cakes und cream | B |
Boot busted oop on brandy shdeam | B |
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Mit stims of tender graceful ring | C |
De gals begoon a song to sing | C |
A bland mildt lied of olden dime | B |
Deutsch vas die doon und Deutsch de rhyme | B |
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Wi's uff der Stross' wenn's finschter ischt | A |
Und niemond in der Goss' mehr ischt | A |
Nur Sch ne M del wolle mer fonga | C |
Wie es gebil'te Leut' verlonga | C |
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At de picknock oud in Spraker's Wood | A |
De Bier was soft de gals were good | A |
Oondil von feller vild and rasch | D |
Called out for a Yankee brandy smash | D |
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A crow vot vas valkin on de vall | E |
Fell dead ven he hear dis Dootchmann call | E |
For he knew dat droples coom py shinks | F |
Ven de Dootch go in for Yankee drinks | F |
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De Dootch got ravin droonk ash sin | G |
Dey smash de windows out und in | G |
Dey bust und bang de bar room ein | H |
Und call for a bucket of branntewein | H |
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Avay avay demselfs dey floong | C |
Und a wild infernal lied dey sung | C |
'Tvas Tam de wein and cuss de bier | I |
Ve tont care nix for de demprance here | I |
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O keep a pringin juleps in | H |
Und baldface corn dat burn like sin | H |
Mit apple tods und oldt shtone fence | F |
Ve'll all get corned ere ve go hence | F |
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Dey dash deir glasses on de cround | A |
Und tanz dill 'tvas all to brick duss ground | A |
Ven dey hear von man had a ten dollar note | A |
De crowd go dead for dat rich man's troat | A |
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A demperance chap vot coomed dere in | H |
Vent squanderin out mit his shell burst in | H |
It's walk your chalks you loost your chance | F |
Dis vot de call der Dootchmans' dance | F |
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Boot ven de law mit his myrmidon | H |
Vas hear of dese Dootchmen's carryins on | H |
Dey sent bolicemen shtern und good | A |
To pull dose Dootch in Spraker's Wood | A |
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De Dootch vas all gone roarin mad | A |
Und trinked mit Spraker all dey had | A |
Dey shpend 'nuf money to last deir life | J |
And each vas tantzin mit anoder man's wife | J |
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Dey all cot poonish difers vays | F |
Some vent to jug for dirty tays | F |
Und de von dat kilt de demperance man | H |
Vas kit from de Alderman repriman | H |
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Und dus it ran A warnin dake | C |
For you mighdt hafe mate soom pig mishdake | C |
Now how vouldt you hafe feeled py shing | C |
If dat man hat peen in de whiskey ring | C |
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Since you votes mine dicket of course you know | H |
I'm pound to led you shlide und go | H |
Boot nefer on whiskey trink your fill | E |
For you Dootchmen don't know who to kill | E |
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Now Deutschers all on dis warning dink | C |
Und don't get troonk on Yankee trink | C |
For neider you or anoder man | H |
Can pe hocks like de New York rowdies can | H |
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So trink goot bier mit musik plest | A |
For if you tried your level best | A |
You can't be plackguarts taint in de plood | A |
Dus endet de shdory of Spraker's Wood | A |
Charles G. Leland
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