Breitmann As An Uhlan. Ii. Breitmann In A Balloon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBACCC CDBADBAB BDBDADAD BDBDAEAE BFBGBBBB DDCDHIAI IBJBBCBC BABAABIB DDADBKBK AIBIAKDI AADAAIBC BIAKICIC DBDBDLBJ BLCLCADD DBABABAB DDKDCABA ACDCDJCJ BCACCDBD CDCDDBDB| Who vas efer hear soosh voonders | A |
| Holy breest or virshin nonn | B |
| As pefelled de Coptain Breitmann | B |
| Vhen he hoont an air ballon | B |
| Der Bizzy und der Dizzy | A |
| Mit lothairingen und Lothair | C |
| Vas nodings to dis Deutscher | C |
| Who vent kitin troo de air | C |
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| Id was in yar Nofember | C |
| In eighdeen sefendee | D |
| Der Breitmann vent a prowlin | B |
| By monden light vent he | A |
| In fillages deserted | D |
| He hear de Uhu moan | B |
| For you alvays hear der Uhu | A |
| Vhere der Uhu lan ish gone | B |
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| Alone allonsed der Uhlan | B |
| Boot nodings could he find | D |
| Safe whitey clouds a drivin | B |
| In moonshine fore de wind | D |
| Boot ash he see dese cloudins | A |
| He bemark dat von vas round | D |
| Und inshtead of goin oopwarts | A |
| It kep risin towards de ground | D |
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| Oh vot ish dis a gomin | B |
| Some planet py de Lord | D |
| Too boor to life in heafen | B |
| Coom down on eart to poard | D |
| Und pelow it schwing tree engels | A |
| Two he vons mit a wench | E |
| Boot mein Gott vot sort of engels | A |
| Can dose pe dalkin Fr ntsch | E |
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| I hafe read in Eckhartshausen | B |
| Dat oop in heafen py tam | F |
| De engels dalk in Sherman | B |
| Und sing Mardin Luther's psalm | G |
| O nein es sind kein engeln | B |
| Vot sail so smoofly on | B |
| Das sind verfluchte Franzosen | B |
| In einem luft ballon | B |
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| Hei how der Breitman streak it | D |
| Ven vonce he kess de trut' | D |
| He spurred id like de wild fire | C |
| Of hope in early yout' | D |
| Troo de weingarts like der teufel | H |
| Vhen he shase a lawyer's soul | I |
| Down der moundain mit his lanze | A |
| Und his wafin banderol | I |
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| Down de moundain o'er de valley | I |
| Troo de village he ish gone | B |
| Dog barks die out pehind him | J |
| Oders bark ash he come on | B |
| Liddle heedet he deir bellin | B |
| Liddle mind der Hahnen crow | C |
| Liddle hear der Bauern yellin | B |
| Clotter clodder on he go | C |
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| Oh vot ish hoontin foxen | B |
| Und vot ish y ger pliss | A |
| Und vot ish shasin bison | B |
| On de blains to soosh ash dis | A |
| I hafe dinked dat roonin rebels | A |
| Vas de best of eartly fun | B |
| Boot id isn't half so sholly | I |
| Ash to go a luft ballon | B |
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| Und ash id shdill vent onwart | D |
| Shdill onwarts mit der wind | D |
| Der coom a real madness | A |
| To catch id o'er his mind | D |
| Und had'st dou seen him vylin | B |
| Dat wild onfuriate brick | K |
| Dou'st hafe schworn dat Coptain Breitmann | B |
| Was pecome balloonatic | K |
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| In fain dey trow deir sand bags | A |
| In fain all dings let fall | I |
| De ballon shdill kep a sinkin | B |
| Und id vouldn't rise at all | I |
| Yet de wild wind trife id onwarts | A |
| Onwarts shdill der Breitmann go | K |
| Dill he cotch id py a rope ent | D |
| Vot vas hangin town pelow | I |
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| Boot vhen it risen oopwarts | A |
| Ash he cling to id of corse | A |
| Mit de lefter hand he holtet | D |
| To de pridle of his horse | A |
| Der horse valk on his hind legs | A |
| Too schwer to rise vas he | I |
| Mein Gott vot fix for Breitmann | B |
| Of de Uhlan cavallrie | C |
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| So he go for seferal stunden | B |
| Petween himmel und eart pelow | I |
| Boot der teufel und die engels | A |
| Couldn't make der Hans let go | K |
| Dill all at vonce an id e | I |
| Coom from his loocky shtar | C |
| He led co his horse's pridle | I |
| Und glimb oop indo de car | C |
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| Und vot you dinks he foundet | D |
| Vhen in dat air ballon | B |
| A nople Englisch vicomte | D |
| Milord de Robinson | B |
| Und mit him vas a laity | D |
| Mit whom he'd rooned afay | L |
| Whom he indroduce to Breitmann | B |
| Ash die Jungfer Salom | J |
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| Und der dritte was a barson | B |
| Whom Milord mit prudent view | L |
| Hat took als secretair | C |
| Likevise for pallast doo | L |
| Dey should hafe bitched him ofer | C |
| Vhen de gas was out dey say | A |
| Boot de dam vould not 'low it | D |
| She'd an arri re pens e | D |
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| Sait Milord Afar we've wandered | D |
| We are completely brown | B |
| And I'll give a thousand shiners | A |
| If you'll take me to a town | B |
| Where no one will molest us | A |
| Till we find our way to Lon | B |
| Here der Breitmann ent de sentence | A |
| Ash he gry out shortly done | B |
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| And as for this fair lady | D |
| To whom I would be bound | D |
| Sait Milord we'll have a wedding | K |
| Before we reach the ground | D |
| To escape her father's anger | C |
| We fled to live in peace | A |
| But she's relatives in London | B |
| And they have the police | A |
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| O vas not dis a voonders | A |
| To make de Captain shdare | C |
| A tausend pounds in bocket | D |
| Und a veddin in de air | C |
| He gafe avay de laity | D |
| Und als sie wieder kam | J |
| Zur festen Erde wieder | C |
| Ward sie Robinson Madame | J |
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| O go mit me said Breitmann | B |
| O go in mein Quartier | C |
| Don't mind dem gommon soldiers | A |
| For I'm an officier | C |
| He guide dem troo de coontry | C |
| Till dey reach de ocean strand | D |
| Now dey sit und pless Hans Breitmann | B |
| In de far off English land | D |
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| Dis ish Breitmann's last adfenture | C |
| How troo Himmel air flew he | D |
| Und it's dime oh nople reader | C |
| For a dime to part from dee | D |
| Dou may'st dake it all in earnest | D |
| Or pelieve id's only fon | B |
| Boot dere's woonder dings has hoppent | D |
| Fery oft in Luft ballon | B |
Charles G. Leland
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