Le Roi D-yvetot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCDDD EFEFCCCDEGEGAAADEBEB CCHDEAEABBBDAEAEAAAD A AAIAAAAJJ EJEJBBBIEAEAAAAIAJAB CCCIEAEAAAAIECECFFFJ JIl 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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