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Brandy's rhyme scheme




The 1972 song "Brandy (You're a fine girl)" has it seems to me an unusual lyrical feature. AAAB, CCCD.

That is: most verses contain three successive lines that end witrh the same sound then a fourth line that simply doesn't.

There's a port on a western bay
That serves a hundred ships a day
Lonely sailors pass the time away
And talk about their homes.

And there's a girl in this harbor town
And she works layin' whiskey down
They say "Brandy, fetch another round"
She serves them whiskey and wine.


So my question: can any of my readers think of any other song that has lyrics using this dangling-final-line pattern?

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