Breitmann In Holland - Leyden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEBE BBFBGHIH GHBHIJIJ KBLBHJBJ HMBMIKHK KBHBHIGI GNONIBBB| Tis 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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