Le Roi D-yvetot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCDDD EFEFCCCDEGEGAAADEBEB CCHDEAEABBBDAEAEAAAD A AAIAAAAJJ EJEJBBBIEAEAAAAIAJAB CCCIEAEAAAAIECECFFFJ J| Il etait un roi d'Yvetot | A |
| Peu connu dans l'histoire | B |
| Se levant tard se couchant tot | A |
| Dormant fort bien sans gloire | B |
| Et couronne par Jeanneton | C |
| D'un simple bonnet de coton | C |
| Dit on | C |
| Oh oh oh oh ah ah ah ah | D |
| Quel bon petit roi c'etait la | D |
| La la | D |
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| Il fesait ses quatre repas | E |
| Dans son palais de chaume | F |
| Et sur un ane pas a pas | E |
| Parcourait son royaume | F |
| Joyeux simple et croyant le bien | C |
| Pour toute garde il n'avait rien | C |
| Qu'un chien | C |
| Oh oh oh oh ah ah ah ah | D |
| Il n'avait de gout onereux | E |
| Qu'une soif un peu vive | G |
| Mais en rendant son peuple heureux | E |
| Il faut bien qu'un roi vive | G |
| Lui meme a table et sans suppot | A |
| Sur chaque muid levait un pot | A |
| D'impot | A |
| Oh oh oh oh ah ah ah ah | D |
| Aux filles de bonnes maisons | E |
| Comme il avait su plaire | B |
| Ses sujets avaient cent raisons | E |
| De le nommer leur pere | B |
| D'ailleurs il ne levait de ban | C |
| Que pour tirer quatre fois l'an | C |
| Au blanc | H |
| Oh oh oh oh ah ah ah ah | D |
| Il n'agrandit point ses etats | E |
| Fut un voisin commode | A |
| Et modele des potentats | E |
| Prit le plaisir pour code | A |
| Ce n'est que loraqu'il expira | B |
| Que le peuple qui l'enterra | B |
| Pleura | B |
| Oh oh oh oh ah ah ah ah | D |
| On conserve encor le portrait | A |
| De ce digne et bon prince | E |
| C'est l'enseigne d'un cabaret | A |
| Fameux dans la province | E |
| Les jours de fete bien souvent | A |
| La foule s'ecrie en buvant | A |
| Devant | A |
| Oh oh oh oh ah ah ah ah | D |
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| The King Of Yvetot | A |
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| There was a king of Yvetot | A |
| Of whom renown hath little said | A |
| Who let all thoughts of glory go | I |
| And dawdled half his days a bed | A |
| And every night as night came round | A |
| By Jenny with a nightcap crowned | A |
| Slept very sound | A |
| Sing ho ho ho and he he he | J |
| That's the kind of king for me | J |
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| And every day it came to pass | E |
| That four lusty meals made he | J |
| And step by step upon an ass | E |
| Rode abroad his realms to see | J |
| And wherever he did stir | B |
| What think you was his escort sir | B |
| Why an old cur | B |
| Sing ho ho ho | I |
| If e'er he went into excess | E |
| 'Twas from a somewhat lively thirst | A |
| But he who would his subjects bless | E |
| Odd's fish must wet his whistle first | A |
| And so from every cask they got | A |
| Our king did to himself allot | A |
| At least a pot | A |
| Sing ho ho | I |
| To all the ladies of the land | A |
| A courteous king and kind was he | J |
| The reason why you'll understand | A |
| They named him Pater Patriae | B |
| Each year he called his fighting men | C |
| And marched a league from home and then | C |
| Marched back again | C |
| Sing ho ho | I |
| Neither by force nor false pretence | E |
| He sought to make his kingdom great | A |
| And made O princes learn from hence | E |
| 'Live and let live ' his rule of state | A |
| 'Twas only when he came to die | A |
| That his people who stood by | A |
| Were known to cry | A |
| Sing ho ho | I |
| The portrait of this best of kings | E |
| Is extant still upon a sign | C |
| That on a village tavern swings | E |
| Famed in the country for good wine | C |
| The people in their Sunday trim | F |
| Filling their glasses to the brim | F |
| Look up to him | F |
| Singing ha ha ha and he he he | J |
| That's the sort of king for me | J |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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