Breitmann In Holland - Leyden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEBE BBFBGHIH GHBHIJIJ KBLBHJBJ HMBMIKHK KBHBHIGI GNONIBBBTis shveet to valk in Holland towns | A |
Apout de twilicht tide | B |
Vhen all ish shdill on proad canals | C |
Safe vhere a poat may clide | B |
Shdrange light on darkenin vater falls | D |
In long soft lines afar | E |
Der abenddroth on dunkelheit | B |
Vitch shows or hides a star | E |
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De pridges risen all aroundt | B |
So quaindly left und right | B |
Pedween each pridge und shattow lies | F |
A lemon of yellow light | B |
Und das volk a goin ober | G |
So darklin onwarts pass | H |
Dey look like Chinese shattows shown | I |
Apofe a lookin glass | H |
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All shdiller grows und shdiller | G |
Sogar die efenin preeze | H |
Ish only heardt far ober het | B |
In dese long lines of drees | H |
A real oldt Holland feelin | I |
Cooms gadderin ober all | J |
You'd nefer dink a sturm hat peen | I |
Oopon dis Grand Canawl | J |
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De nople houses how dey'd mofe | K |
An old New Yorker's heart | B |
Time vas 'twix dese und dose at home | L |
You couldn't tell 'em part | B |
Mit crate brass knockers on de toors | H |
Und parlors town so low | J |
You see de crates a glowin prite | B |
O'er carbets ash you go | J |
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Dere's comfort full of avery dings | H |
You veel it ash you look | M |
You knows de volks ish opulend | B |
Und keep a bully cook | M |
Und oopon de high camine | I |
Or here und dere on shelf | K |
Dere's Japanesisch dings in rows | H |
Pe mingled oop mit delf | K |
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Dere's noding in dis Holland life | K |
Vitch seems of present day | B |
De fery shildren in de shdreeds | H |
Look quaintlich as dey blay | B |
De liddle rosy housemaids | H |
In bicdures vell I know | I |
De dames und heers hafe all an air | G |
Of sixdy years ago | I |
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They may dalk of anciendt hishdory | G |
Und for romantisch seek | N |
De ding dat mofes most teeply ish | O |
Old vashioned not antique | N |
O if you live in Leyden town | I |
You'll meet if troot' pe told | B |
De forms of all de freunds who tied | B |
Vhen du werst six years old | B |
Charles G. Leland
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