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 BDBDJJEJ| Vhen 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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