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 leafsA
Ash maids shake out deir locksB
Und singen mit de rifuletsB
Vitch ripplen round de rocksB
Und beople swarm land outwardsB
Und cities weary menC
Hans Breitmann rode de Belgier markD
For Spa in Les ArdennesB
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Und vhen he came to SpadenlandE
He found it fein und fairF
For dey pour him out de p k schnappsB
Dazu elixer rareF
Und mit a soldier's inshdinkD
To find a shanse to shootE
Mitout delay he fire afayG
Right in de Grande RedouteE
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De virst shot dat der Breitmann firedE
He pring de peaches downH
For he hit de double z ro mitE
A gold NapoleonI
Und ash he raked de shiners inJ
He hummed a liddle doonJ
I kess I tont try dat againJ
Said he dis afdernoonJ
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Boot vhen he coom to rouge et noirK
A tear fell tripplin dennJ
Id look so moosh like goot old dimesB
To come dose games againJ
Yet vhen he lossed a hundred francsB
He sadly toorned afayG
I'd rader keep de tiger hereL
Dan vight him any dayE
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Und shtanding py de dapleM
He saw a French loretteE
Vat porrowed shpecie all aroundE
Und lossed at efery betE
Id's all de same mit dis or datE
Or any kind of sinJ
De lorette or de rolette bot'E
Will make de money shpinJ
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He trinket of Le Pouhon wellM
Und from La Sauveni reE
He tried it ad de BarisartE
Und auch de G ronst reE
Dey say dat Troot' lie in a wellM
So trink from all we canJ
Und here we'll prove dat Troot is HealthN
Dat's so sayd BreitemannJ
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So long in ruined FranchimontE
He sat on hollowed groundE
Und dinked of Wilhelm de la MarckD
Who'd raked dat coontry roundE
Mein Gott how id vas mofe mine heartE
To read in hishdoryE
Und find de scattered shinin lightsB
Of vellers shoost like meE
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Dis nople boar pig of ArdennesB
Dis shtately Wallowin lordE
Vas make him vamous py de penJ
Und glorious py de swordtE
Und showed his hero scholarshipO
Vhen he wrote to de pishop 'SatisB
Brulabo monasteriumE
Vestrum si non payatis '-
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Dey say dat in de keller hereE
Dere lifes a coblin briestE
Dereto a teufelsj gersmannJ
Vot guard a specie chestE
O if I vonce could find de vayG
Und spot dat box of checksB
I voonder shoost how long 'twould peO
Pefore I'd twis deir necksB
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Und in de Walk of MeyerbeerE
Vhere plashin brooklets ringD
He see vhere in de water wildE
De wood birds flip deir wingD
Ash de prooklet's lost in de riferE
Und de rifer's lost in de seaB
Mine soul kits lost on water 'plain '-
Says Breitemann says heB
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Und ash he walked de MeyerbeerE
He marcked peside de wayE
A rock shoost like a wild boar's headE
Vraie t te du sanglierE
Der Breitmann heafe a shiant sighG
Und say mit 'motion grandE
Von crate id e ish ber allM
In dis der Schweinpig's landE
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He drafel troo de Val d'Ambl veB
He lounge de schweet Sept HeuresB
He shdare indo de window shopsB
Und see de painted wareE
He looket at de fans und dingsB
Denn said To tell de trut'E
Dere's painted vares more dear ash disB
Oop shdairs in La RedouteE
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Und sittin in de ChampignonJ
Vitch rose 'neat Lofe's schweet handE
He read in books of MarmontelM
Of Jeannette et LubinJ
Id's nice to see SimplicitasB
Rococoed oop mit vlowersB
Und dink soosh virtue shdill may lifeG
In dis base vorldt of oursB
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'Tvas here oopon de SpadoumontE
Deir gottashe used to setE
'Tvas here they keeped von simple cowD
Likevise an lettuce bettE
Berhaps I hafe crown vorldly sinceB
Yet shdill may druly sayB
Dat in mine poyhood's tays I vasB
Apout so good ash deyB
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But he vot vant to see dis landE
Und has nod time for allM
Eash woodland nook und shady brookD
On Herr Marcette shouldt callM
For he has baintet all to liveG
Vhen de drees demselfs are goneJ
Und shoost so goot as artist auchP
Ish he bon compagnonJ
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Farevell schveet Spa dou home of vlowersB
Of ruin and of rockD
Vhere vild pirds sing und de band ish blayB
Eash day at sefen o'clockD
If all de shbrees dat Spa has seenJ
Vere melted into vonJ
De soul vouldt reach Nirwana lostE
In transcendental funJ

Charles G. Leland



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