Purzmalunder Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFG EHIJFEKL MN OPQRIBS GPKP ATIUUV AUEKAUW AFX UYAZ AKUK KA2A UAEAAUB2 U UC2UAAD2E2 AF2AG2A AKG AZH2 KAZUKQ| At | A |
| the age of five | B |
| I was certain about | C |
| everything | D |
| - | |
| In | - |
| China | E |
| French was | F |
| spoken | G |
| in | - |
| Africa | E |
| there was a bird called a kangaroo | H |
| and | I |
| the Virgin Mary | J |
| was | F |
| Catholic and had a | E |
| skyblue | K |
| robe on | L |
| - | |
| She was made of wax and was the dear | M |
| Lord's mother | N |
| - | |
| When I grew up | O |
| I wanted | P |
| to become | Q |
| Schiller and Goethe | R |
| and | I |
| live | B |
| in Berlin behind the palace | S |
| - | |
| When I had children | G |
| I wanted | P |
| to have them all | K |
| painted | P |
| - | |
| That | A |
| wouldn't be so expensive | T |
| and | I |
| they wouldn't tear | U |
| their | U |
| pants | V |
| - | |
| At | A |
| Pollakowski's book bindery | U |
| hung a | E |
| large colorful | K |
| flyspeckbespeckled | A |
| poster | U |
| with a white stallion rearing on his hind legs | W |
| - | |
| The fat Turk with the shining saber on the post | A |
| was | F |
| Ali Pascha | X |
| - | |
| If I ever | U |
| got a dime | Y |
| I wanted | A |
| to buy it for myself | Z |
| - | |
| But | A |
| mostly | K |
| I did so want to discover | U |
| the source of the Nile | K |
| I | - |
| knew exactly | K |
| how | A2 |
| you would do it | A |
| - | |
| Where | U |
| it flowed out | A |
| you simply go into a | E |
| boat | A |
| paddled piddled and puddled | A |
| to where | U |
| everything stops | B2 |
| - | |
| Then you were there | U |
| - | |
| There | U |
| there were apes | C2 |
| throwing oranges and coconuts at each other | U |
| gold dust | A |
| and | A |
| grape raisin trees with bushels of almonds | D2 |
| on them | E2 |
| - | |
| And | A |
| so I wouldn't starve | F2 |
| I would | A |
| take | G2 |
| lots of barley sugar bars along and a mess of carob bread | A |
| - | |
| But | A |
| I wouldn't tell | K |
| anyone | G |
| - | |
| That | A |
| I kept for myself | Z |
| alone | H2 |
| - | |
| Only | K |
| I wondered | A |
| to myself | Z |
| why the others were | U |
| all | K |
| so dumb | Q |
Arno Holz
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