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 CDCDDBDBWho 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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