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 AAAA| De 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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