The King Of Canoodle-dum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFE BGBGAEBE BBBBBBHA DIDJKLFL MNMNOPBP QPQPQERE ASASBTUT RVRVTEGE BTBTBWRX BPBPTRRR BYBYBEFE BPBPRZBZ ARARAA2HA2 BPBPPSB2SThe story of Frederick Gowler | A |
A mariner of the sea | B |
Who quitted his ship the Howler | A |
A sailing in Caribbee | C |
For many a day he wandered | D |
Till he met in a state of rum | E |
Calamity Pop Von Peppermint Drop | F |
The King of Canoodle Dum | E |
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That monarch addressed him gaily | B |
Hum Golly de do to day | G |
Hum Lily white Buckra Sailee | B |
You notice his playful way | G |
What dickens you doin' here sar | A |
Why debbil you want to come | E |
Hum Picaninnee dere isn't no sea | B |
In City Canoodle Dum | E |
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And Gowler he answered sadly | B |
Oh mine is a doleful tale | B |
They've treated me werry badly | B |
In Lunnon from where I hail | B |
I'm one of the Family Royal | B |
No common Jack Tar you see | B |
I'm William The Fourth far up in the North | H |
A King in my own countree | A |
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Bang bang How the tom toms thundered | D |
Bang bang How they thumped this gongs | I |
Bang bang How the people wondered | D |
Bang bang At it hammer and tongs | J |
Alliance with Kings of Europe | K |
Is an honour Canoodlers seek | L |
Her monarchs don't stop with Peppermint Drop | F |
Every day in the week | L |
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FRED told them that he was undone | M |
For his people all went insane | N |
And fired the Tower of London | M |
And Grinnidge's Naval Fane | N |
And some of them racked St James's | O |
And vented their rage upon | P |
The Church of St Paul the Fishmongers' Hall | B |
And the Angel at Islington | P |
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Calamity Pop implored him | Q |
In his capital to remain | P |
Till those people of his restored him | Q |
To power and rank again | P |
Calamity Pop he made him | Q |
A Prince of Canoodle Dum | E |
With a couple of caves some beautiful slaves | R |
And the run of the royal rum | E |
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Pop gave him his only daughter | A |
Hum pickety wimple tip | S |
Fred vowed that if over the water | A |
He went in an English ship | S |
He'd make her his Queen though truly | B |
It is an unusual thing | T |
For a Caribbee brat who's as black as your hat | U |
To be wife of an English King | T |
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And all the Canoodle Dummers | R |
They copied his rolling walk | V |
His method of draining rummers | R |
His emblematical talk | V |
For his dress and his graceful breeding | T |
His delicate taste in rum | E |
And his nautical way were the talk of the day | G |
In the Court of Canoodle Dum | E |
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Calamity Pop most wisely | B |
Determined in everything | T |
To model his Court precisely | B |
On that of the English King | T |
And ordered that every lady | B |
And every lady's lord | W |
Should masticate jacky a kind of tobaccy | R |
And scatter its juice abroad | X |
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They signified wonder roundly | B |
At any astounding yarn | P |
By darning their dear eyes roundly | B |
'T was all they had to darn | P |
They hoisted their slacks adjusting | T |
Garments of plantain leaves | R |
With nautical twitches as if they wore breeches | R |
Instead of a dress like Eve's | R |
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They shivered their timbers proudly | B |
At a phantom forelock dragged | Y |
And called for a hornpipe loudly | B |
Whenever amusement flagged | Y |
Hum Golly him POP resemble | B |
Him Britisher sov'reign hum | E |
Calamity Pop Von Peppermint Drop | F |
De King of Canoodle Dum | E |
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The mariner's lively Hollo | B |
Enlivened Canoodle's plain | P |
For blessings unnumbered follow | B |
In Civilization's train | P |
But Fortune who loves a bathos | R |
A terrible ending planned | Z |
For Admiral D Chickabiddy C B | B |
Placed foot on Canoodle land | Z |
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That rebel he seized King Gowler | A |
He threatened his royal brains | R |
And put him aboard the Howler | A |
And fastened him down with chains | R |
The Howler she weighed her anchor | A |
With Frederick nicely nailed | A2 |
And off to the North with William The Fourth | H |
These horrible pirates sailed | A2 |
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Calamity said with folly | B |
Hum nebber want him again | P |
Him civilize all of us golly | B |
Calamity suck him brain | P |
The people however were pained when | P |
They saw him aboard his ship | S |
But none of them wept for their Freddy except | B2 |
Hum pickety wimple tip | S |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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