Breitmann In Forty-eight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FCBCGHBC IBJBKBLB MHBBLHBH BBBBBLLL BBBBDLBL DJDJBHHH LBBBLBBB BHBHBMBB BBHBLBHB LBLBBBBB LBLBBBBB BLJLLNBN BBJBHDLD BLLLLBLB LBJBHBDB BBDBJOHO OBBBLBBB| Dere woned once a studente | A |
| All in der Stadt Paris | B |
| Whom jeder der ihn kennte | A |
| Der rowdy Breitmann hiess | B |
| He roosted in de rue La Harpe | C |
| Im Luxembourg Hotel | D |
| 'Twas shoost in anno ' | E |
| Dat all dese dings pefel | D |
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| Boot he who vouldt go hoontin now | F |
| To find dat rue La Harpe | C |
| Moost hafe oongommon shpecdagles | B |
| Und look darnation sharp | C |
| For der Kaisar und his Hausmann | G |
| Mit hauses made so vree | H |
| Dere roon shoost now a Bouleverse | B |
| Vhere dis shdreet used to pe | C |
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| In dis Hotel de Luxembourg | I |
| A vild oldt shdory say | B |
| A shtudent vonce pring home a dame | J |
| Und on de nexter day | B |
| He pooled a ribbon from her neck | K |
| Off fell de lady's het | B |
| She'd trafelled from de guillotine | L |
| Und valked de city deadt | B |
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| Boot Breitmann nefer cared himself | M |
| If dis vas falsch or drue | H |
| I kess he hat mit lifin gals | B |
| Pout quite enough to do | B |
| Und Februar vas gomin | L |
| Ganz revolutionnaire | H |
| Und vhere der Teufel had vork on hand | B |
| Der Hans vas alvays dere | H |
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| Und darker grew de beople's brows | B |
| No Banquet could dey raise | B |
| So dey shtood und shvore at gorners | B |
| Or dey singed de Marseillaise | B |
| Und here und dere a crashin sound | B |
| Like forcin shutters ran | L |
| Und boorstin gun schmidts' vindows in | L |
| Hard vorked der Breitemann | L |
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| He helped to howl Les Girondins | B |
| To cheer de beople's hearts | B |
| He maket dem bild parricades | B |
| Mit garriages und garts | B |
| Vhen a bretty maiden sendinel | D |
| Vonce ask de countersign | L |
| He gafe das kind a rousin giss | B |
| Gott hute dir und dein | L |
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| Und wilder vent de pattle | D |
| France spread her oriflamme | J |
| Und deeper roared de sturm bell | D |
| De bell of Notre Dame | J |
| Und he who nefer heard it | B |
| O'er shots und cries of fear | H |
| Loud booming like a dragon's roar | H |
| Has someding yet to hear | H |
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| Und in de Fauborg Sainte Antoine | L |
| Dere comed a fusillade | B |
| Und dyin groans und fallin dead | B |
| Vere roundt dat parricade | B |
| But der song of Revolution | L |
| From a tousand voices round | B |
| Made a fearful opera gorus | B |
| To de deat' gries on de ground | B |
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| Und all around dose parricades | B |
| Dey raise der teufel dere | H |
| Somedimes dey vork mit pig axes | B |
| Und somedimes mit gewehr | H |
| Dey maket prifate houses | B |
| Gife all deir arms afay | M |
| Und denn oopon de panels | B |
| Dey writet Armes donn es | B |
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| Und ve saw mid roarin vollies | B |
| Shtreaked like banded settin suns | B |
| Two regiments coome ofer | H |
| Und telifer oop deir guns | B |
| Hei how de deers vere roonin | L |
| Hei how dey gryed hurrahs | B |
| For dey saw de vight vas ofer | H |
| Und dey know dey gained deir cause | B |
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| Dus spoke deir hearts outboorstin | L |
| In battle by de blade | B |
| From sun to sun mit roarin gun | L |
| Und donnerin parricade | B |
| In vain pefore de depudies | B |
| De princes tremblin stood | B |
| Vot comes in France too late a day | B |
| Cooms shoost in dime for blood | B |
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| Vhen de Tuileries vas daken | L |
| Amid de scotterin shot | B |
| Und vlyin stones und howlin | L |
| Und curses vild und hot | B |
| 'Tvas dere Hans clobbed his musket | B |
| Und dere de man vas first | B |
| To roosh into de palace | B |
| Ven de toors vere in geburst | B |
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| Some vellers burn de guart haus | B |
| Some trink des K nigs wein | L |
| Some fill deir hats mit rasbry sham | J |
| Und prandy beeches fein | L |
| Hans Breitmann in de gitchen | L |
| Vas shdare like avery ding | N |
| To see vot lots of victual de dees | B |
| Id dakes to feed a king | N |
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| Und oder volk like plackguarts | B |
| Vent dook de goaches out | B |
| Und burnin dem dey rolled dem | J |
| Afay mit yell und shout | B |
| Der Breitmann in der barlor | H |
| Help writen rapidly | D |
| La libert pour la Pologne | L |
| Likevise pour l'Italie | D |
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| Den in der Tuileries courtyard | B |
| Ten tousand volk come on | L |
| Dey vas gissin und hurrahin | L |
| For to dink der king vas gone | L |
| Some vas hollerin und tantzin | L |
| Round de blazin oldt caboose | B |
| Vhen Fr ntschmen kits a goin | L |
| Den dey lets der teufel loose | B |
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| Boot von veller set me laughin | L |
| Who roosh madly roun de field | B |
| He hat rop de Cluny Museum | J |
| Und gestohlen speer und schild | B |
| Mit a sblendit royal charger | H |
| Vitch he hat somevhere found | B |
| Like a trunken Don Quixote | D |
| He vent tearin oop und round | B |
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| Doun vent de line of Bourbons | B |
| Doun vent de vork of years | B |
| Ash de pillars of deir temple | D |
| Ge crashed like splintered speers | B |
| Und o'er dem rosed a phantom | J |
| Wild beautiful und weak | O |
| Vhile millions gry arount her | H |
| Vive vive la Republique | O |
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| Tree days mid shdiflin powder shmoke | O |
| Tree days mid cheers und groans | B |
| Ve fought to guard de parricades | B |
| Or pile dem oop mit shtones | B |
| De hand vitch held de bistol denn | L |
| Or made de crowbar bite | B |
| Das war de same Hans Breitmann's hand | B |
| Vitch now dese verses write | B |
Charles G. Leland
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