The King Of Canoodle-dum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The story of Frederick GowlerA
A mariner of the seaB
Who quitted his ship the HowlerA
A sailing in CaribbeeC
For many a day he wanderedD
Till he met in a state of rumE
Calamity Pop Von Peppermint DropF
The King of Canoodle DumE
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That monarch addressed him gailyB
Hum Golly de do to dayG
Hum Lily white Buckra SaileeB
You notice his playful wayG
What dickens you doin' here sarA
Why debbil you want to comeE
Hum Picaninnee dere isn't no seaB
In City Canoodle DumE
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And Gowler he answered sadlyB
Oh mine is a doleful taleB
They've treated me werry badlyB
In Lunnon from where I hailB
I'm one of the Family RoyalB
No common Jack Tar you seeB
I'm William The Fourth far up in the NorthH
A King in my own countreeA
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Bang bang How the tom toms thunderedD
Bang bang How they thumped this gongsI
Bang bang How the people wonderedD
Bang bang At it hammer and tongsJ
Alliance with Kings of EuropeK
Is an honour Canoodlers seekL
Her monarchs don't stop with Peppermint DropF
Every day in the weekL
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FRED told them that he was undoneM
For his people all went insaneN
And fired the Tower of LondonM
And Grinnidge's Naval FaneN
And some of them racked St James'sO
And vented their rage uponP
The Church of St Paul the Fishmongers' HallB
And the Angel at IslingtonP
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Calamity Pop implored himQ
In his capital to remainP
Till those people of his restored himQ
To power and rank againP
Calamity Pop he made himQ
A Prince of Canoodle DumE
With a couple of caves some beautiful slavesR
And the run of the royal rumE
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Pop gave him his only daughterA
Hum pickety wimple tipS
Fred vowed that if over the waterA
He went in an English shipS
He'd make her his Queen though trulyB
It is an unusual thingT
For a Caribbee brat who's as black as your hatU
To be wife of an English KingT
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And all the Canoodle DummersR
They copied his rolling walkV
His method of draining rummersR
His emblematical talkV
For his dress and his graceful breedingT
His delicate taste in rumE
And his nautical way were the talk of the dayG
In the Court of Canoodle DumE
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Calamity Pop most wiselyB
Determined in everythingT
To model his Court preciselyB
On that of the English KingT
And ordered that every ladyB
And every lady's lordW
Should masticate jacky a kind of tobaccyR
And scatter its juice abroadX
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They signified wonder roundlyB
At any astounding yarnP
By darning their dear eyes roundlyB
'T was all they had to darnP
They hoisted their slacks adjustingT
Garments of plantain leavesR
With nautical twitches as if they wore breechesR
Instead of a dress like Eve'sR
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They shivered their timbers proudlyB
At a phantom forelock draggedY
And called for a hornpipe loudlyB
Whenever amusement flaggedY
Hum Golly him POP resembleB
Him Britisher sov'reign humE
Calamity Pop Von Peppermint DropF
De King of Canoodle DumE
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The mariner's lively HolloB
Enlivened Canoodle's plainP
For blessings unnumbered followB
In Civilization's trainP
But Fortune who loves a bathosR
A terrible ending plannedZ
For Admiral D Chickabiddy C BB
Placed foot on Canoodle landZ
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That rebel he seized King GowlerA
He threatened his royal brainsR
And put him aboard the HowlerA
And fastened him down with chainsR
The Howler she weighed her anchorA
With Frederick nicely nailedA2
And off to the North with William The FourthH
These horrible pirates sailedA2
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Calamity said with follyB
Hum nebber want him againP
Him civilize all of us gollyB
Calamity suck him brainP
The people however were pained whenP
They saw him aboard his shipS
But none of them wept for their Freddy exceptB2
Hum pickety wimple tipS

William Schwenck Gilbert



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