Breitmann Am Rhein - Cologne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEF AGHGIHJH KBBBLALA BBBJMAAB NAAHAABA AHHHOLHL BBABBAHP LBBBHBHB LQAQAHLH LHBHBAAA ABABBQAQ ARLRBAAA LLMLHBRB SALABLALHow wundersch n das Vaterland | A |
In audumn life abbears | B |
Vot rainpows gild ids vallies crand | A |
Ven seen troo vallin tears | B |
Und VON I'll creet mit sang und klang | C |
Und drown in goldnen wein | D |
Old Deutschland's cot her sohn again | E |
Hans Breitmann's on der Rhein | F |
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Und doughts ish schwell dat mighdy heart | A |
Too awfool for make known | G |
Ven dey shunt him from de railroat car | H |
Und tropped him in Cologne | G |
De holy towers of de dome | I |
Cleam twilicht veiled afar | H |
Und like some lonely bilgrim's pipe | J |
Dim shines de efenin star | H |
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Hans look to find his baggage check | K |
Und see dat all ish shdraighdts | B |
Denn toorn him to de city toors | B |
Mein nadife land wie gehts | B |
Boot dat's vot all who read may run | L |
Fool blainly armies write | A |
Id's ofer all half Shermany | L |
Set down in Black and White | A |
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Oh Black and White O Weiss and Schwarz | B |
Vot dings ish dis to see | B |
I vonder vot in future years | B |
Your mission ish to pe | J |
Also in crate America | M |
We had soosh colors too | A |
Die F rb' sind mir nicht unbekannt | A |
Id's shoost tout comme chez nous | B |
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Next tay to de Cathedral | N |
He vent de dings to view | A |
Und found it shoost drei thaler cost | A |
To see de sighds all troo | H |
Id's tear said Hans boot go ahet | A |
I'fe cot de cash all right | A |
Boot id's queer dat's only Protestands | B |
Vot mosdly see de sighdt | A |
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Im Mittelalter I hafe read | A |
De shoorsh vas alvays sure | H |
An open bicdure gallerie | H |
Und book for all de poor | H |
Boot now de dings is so arrange | O |
No poor volk can get in | L |
We Yankees und de Englisch are | H |
Pout all ash shbends de tin | L |
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I shmiles like Mephistopheles | B |
In shoorshes ven I see | B |
Poor Catholics vollerin round apout | A |
To shdeal a sighdt troo ME | B |
Dey peep und creep roundt chapel gates | B |
Boot soon kits trofe afay | A |
Dey gross demselfs und make a brayer | H |
Boot den dey cannot bay | P |
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Dese Deutsche sacrisdans might learn | L |
More goot in Italy | B |
Where beoples bays shoost half de brice | B |
For ten dimes more to see | B |
De volk vot dink I shbeak sefere | H |
Apout dese K ster vays | B |
May read vot Mr B deker | H |
In his Belgine Hand Buch says | B |
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Und valkin oop und town de down | L |
Von ding vas shdill de same | Q |
Shoost ash of oldt he saw de shpread | A |
Of Jean Farina's name | Q |
He find it nort' he find it sout' | A |
He find it eferyvhere | H |
Dere vas no house in all Cologne | L |
Boot J M F vas dere | H |
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De best Cologne in all Cologne | L |
I'll shwear for cerdain sure | H |
Ish maket in de J lichsplatz | B |
Und dat at Numero Four | H |
Boot of dis Cologne in J lichsplatz | B |
Let dis pe understood | A |
Dat some of id ish foorst rate pad | A |
Vhile some is foorst rate good | A |
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Boot von ding drafellers moost opserve | A |
Dis treadful trut I dells | B |
Fast ash dis Farinaceous crowd | A |
So vast hafe grown the schmells | B |
Dose awfool schmells in gass' und strass' | B |
Vitch mofe crate Coleridge squalm | Q |
If so he wrote vot vouldt he write | A |
Apout dem now py tam | Q |
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Of all de schmells I efer schmelt | A |
Py gutter sink or well | R |
At efery gorner of Cologne | L |
Dere's von can peat dat schmell | R |
Vhen dere you go you'll find it so | B |
Don't dake de ding on troost | A |
De meanest skunk in Yankee land | A |
Vould die dere of disgoost | A |
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Boot noding dinked der Breitmann | L |
Of schmutz or idle schein | L |
Vhen he sat in Abend mmerung | M |
Und looket owd on der Rhein | L |
Im goldnen gleam vhile pealin far | H |
Rang shlow shveet kloster bells | B |
Und in de dim plue peaudiful | R |
Rose distant Drachenfels | B |
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Dey trinket lieb Liebfrauenmilch | S |
So pure ash voman's trut' | A |
De singed de songs of Shermany | L |
De songs of Breitmann's yout' | A |
De songs mit tears of vanished years | B |
Made peaudiful in wein | L |
Dus endet out de firster tay | A |
Of Breitmann on der Rhein | L |
Charles G. Leland
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