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 BPBPPSB2S| The 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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