Breitmann In Belgium - Spa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBCDB EFBFDEGE EHEIJJJJ KJBJBGLE MEEEEJEJ MEEEMJNJ EEDEEEBE BEJEOBE EEJEGBOB EDEDEB B EEEEGEME BBBEBEBE JEMJBBGB EEDEBBBB EMDMGJPJ BDBDJJEJVhen sommer drees shake fort deir leafs | A |
Ash maids shake out deir locks | B |
Und singen mit de rifulets | B |
Vitch ripplen round de rocks | B |
Und beople swarm land outwards | B |
Und cities weary men | C |
Hans Breitmann rode de Belgier mark | D |
For Spa in Les Ardennes | B |
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Und vhen he came to Spadenland | E |
He found it fein und fair | F |
For dey pour him out de p k schnapps | B |
Dazu elixer rare | F |
Und mit a soldier's inshdink | D |
To find a shanse to shoot | E |
Mitout delay he fire afay | G |
Right in de Grande Redoute | E |
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De virst shot dat der Breitmann fired | E |
He pring de peaches down | H |
For he hit de double z ro mit | E |
A gold Napoleon | I |
Und ash he raked de shiners in | J |
He hummed a liddle doon | J |
I kess I tont try dat again | J |
Said he dis afdernoon | J |
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Boot vhen he coom to rouge et noir | K |
A tear fell tripplin denn | J |
Id look so moosh like goot old dimes | B |
To come dose games again | J |
Yet vhen he lossed a hundred francs | B |
He sadly toorned afay | G |
I'd rader keep de tiger here | L |
Dan vight him any day | E |
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Und shtanding py de daple | M |
He saw a French lorette | E |
Vat porrowed shpecie all around | E |
Und lossed at efery bet | E |
Id's all de same mit dis or dat | E |
Or any kind of sin | J |
De lorette or de rolette bot' | E |
Will make de money shpin | J |
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He trinket of Le Pouhon well | M |
Und from La Sauveni re | E |
He tried it ad de Barisart | E |
Und auch de G ronst re | E |
Dey say dat Troot' lie in a well | M |
So trink from all we can | J |
Und here we'll prove dat Troot is Health | N |
Dat's so sayd Breitemann | J |
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So long in ruined Franchimont | E |
He sat on hollowed ground | E |
Und dinked of Wilhelm de la Marck | D |
Who'd raked dat coontry round | E |
Mein Gott how id vas mofe mine heart | E |
To read in hishdory | E |
Und find de scattered shinin lights | B |
Of vellers shoost like me | E |
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Dis nople boar pig of Ardennes | B |
Dis shtately Wallowin lord | E |
Vas make him vamous py de pen | J |
Und glorious py de swordt | E |
Und showed his hero scholarship | O |
Vhen he wrote to de pishop 'Satis | B |
Brulabo monasterium | E |
Vestrum si non payatis ' | - |
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Dey say dat in de keller here | E |
Dere lifes a coblin briest | E |
Dereto a teufelsj gersmann | J |
Vot guard a specie chest | E |
O if I vonce could find de vay | G |
Und spot dat box of checks | B |
I voonder shoost how long 'twould pe | O |
Pefore I'd twis deir necks | B |
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Und in de Walk of Meyerbeer | E |
Vhere plashin brooklets ring | D |
He see vhere in de water wild | E |
De wood birds flip deir wing | D |
Ash de prooklet's lost in de rifer | E |
Und de rifer's lost in de sea | B |
Mine soul kits lost on water 'plain ' | - |
Says Breitemann says he | B |
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Und ash he walked de Meyerbeer | E |
He marcked peside de way | E |
A rock shoost like a wild boar's head | E |
Vraie t te du sanglier | E |
Der Breitmann heafe a shiant sigh | G |
Und say mit 'motion grand | E |
Von crate id e ish ber all | M |
In dis der Schweinpig's land | E |
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He drafel troo de Val d'Ambl ve | B |
He lounge de schweet Sept Heures | B |
He shdare indo de window shops | B |
Und see de painted ware | E |
He looket at de fans und dings | B |
Denn said To tell de trut' | E |
Dere's painted vares more dear ash dis | B |
Oop shdairs in La Redoute | E |
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Und sittin in de Champignon | J |
Vitch rose 'neat Lofe's schweet hand | E |
He read in books of Marmontel | M |
Of Jeannette et Lubin | J |
Id's nice to see Simplicitas | B |
Rococoed oop mit vlowers | B |
Und dink soosh virtue shdill may life | G |
In dis base vorldt of ours | B |
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'Tvas here oopon de Spadoumont | E |
Deir gottashe used to set | E |
'Tvas here they keeped von simple cow | D |
Likevise an lettuce bett | E |
Berhaps I hafe crown vorldly since | B |
Yet shdill may druly say | B |
Dat in mine poyhood's tays I vas | B |
Apout so good ash dey | B |
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But he vot vant to see dis land | E |
Und has nod time for all | M |
Eash woodland nook und shady brook | D |
On Herr Marcette shouldt call | M |
For he has baintet all to live | G |
Vhen de drees demselfs are gone | J |
Und shoost so goot as artist auch | P |
Ish he bon compagnon | J |
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Farevell schveet Spa dou home of vlowers | B |
Of ruin and of rock | D |
Vhere vild pirds sing und de band ish blay | B |
Eash day at sefen o'clock | D |
If all de shbrees dat Spa has seen | J |
Vere melted into von | J |
De soul vouldt reach Nirwana lost | E |
In transcendental fun | J |
Charles G. Leland
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