Breitmann Am Rhein - Cologne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEF AGHGIHJH KBBBLALA BBBJMAAB NAAHAABA AHHHOLHL BBABBAHP LBBBHBHB LQAQAHLH LHBHBAAA ABABBQAQ ARLRBAAA LLMLHBRB SALABLAL| How 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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