Breitmann In Holland - Scheveningen, Or De Maiden's Coorse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCBDED EFEGHIJI AKLKMBDD ENBNOPEQ BODOEONO ODDDRERE DDEDEDBE BRNREEOE RDEDDNEN ODEDRSDS DEBEDDED EBEBOOEO EONOJODO DBDBDDODOldt Fl misch | A |
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Het vas Mijn Heer van Torenborg | B |
Ride oud oopon de sand | C |
Und vait to hear a paardeken | D |
Coom tromplin from de land | C |
He vaited vhen de boeren volk | B |
Vent oud oopon de plain | D |
He vaited dill de veary crows | E |
Flew nestwarts home acain | D |
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He vaited ash de wild fox vaits | E |
In long some hoonger noth | F |
He vaited dill de flitterin bats | E |
Vere plack on Abendroth | G |
Id's woe to watch for taily bread | H |
Or bide forgotten call | I |
Boot oh to vait for heartsen lofe | J |
Ish veariest of dem all | I |
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O dat ish not mine laity's prooch | A |
Shoost now so star like shined | K |
O dat ish not mine laity's haar | L |
Soft floatin on de wind | K |
Her goot crayhound mit soosh a step | M |
Vas nefer vont to go | B |
Und dat is niet her paardeken | D |
Whose shtep so vell I know | D |
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Dat light ish speer light from a lanz | E |
Vitch'll part mine pody und soul | N |
De floatin haar is a pennon gay | B |
Or wafin banderol | N |
De crayhound ish a ploot hound wild | O |
Vitch long has dracked me here | P |
Und het paardeken ish a var horse | E |
Vot has hoonted me like deer | Q |
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Well shpoke Mijn Heer van Torenborg | B |
All drue vas afery wordt | O |
For dey bored him troo mit lanzen | D |
Und dey hewed him mit de swordt | O |
Dey killt him armloss harmlos | E |
De plooty reiver band | O |
Und puried him so careloosly | N |
Dat his vace shtick out de sand | O |
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Boot e'er night's plack hat toorned to red | O |
Or e'er de stars vere gone | D |
Dere came de shtep of a paardeken | D |
Soft tromplin tromplin on | D |
A laity fair climped off on him | R |
Und trip mit dainty toes | E |
Boot oh mijn Gott how she vas shkreem | R |
Ven she trot on her drue lofe's nose | E |
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Oh vot ish dis I trots opon | D |
Id's shape fool well I know | D |
Dere nefer yet vas flower like dis | E |
Dat in de garten crow | D |
Dere nefer yet vas fruit like dis | E |
Ash ripen on a dree | D |
Het is Mijn Heer van Torenborg | B |
Dat kan ik blainly see | E |
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Dat heerlijk nose van Torenborg | B |
Ish known of anciend dime | R |
'Tis writ in olten chronikel | N |
Und sung in minsdrel rhyme | R |
Und dis de noblest of de race | E |
Since hishdory pegans | E |
Ish shtickin here shdraighdt out de dirt | O |
Shoost like some boer manns | E |
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Oh cuss de man dat mordered him | R |
Ach cuss him oop and down | D |
Ja cuss him troo de forest roads | E |
Und tamn him in de toun | D |
Und burn his vater und moder | D |
Vhere'er deir vootshteps vall | N |
Mit his schwesters und his broders | E |
De teufel rake dem all | N |
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May afery cuss dat e'er vas cusst | O |
Since cussin foorst pegan | D |
Pe hoorled in von drementous cuss | E |
Acainsdt dat nasdy man | D |
From de foorst crate cuss on Adam | R |
To de smalles' of de crop | S |
Here de tead man gafe a shifer | D |
Und gry oud For Gott's sake shdop | S |
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Dere's a cerdain lot of shwearin | D |
Vitch anger alvays crafes | E |
Boot spite like dat's enof to pring | B |
De tead men from deir craves | E |
I can't lie here no longer | D |
Und hear soosh pizen pain | D |
Und since you've shtirred me out I kess | E |
I'll coom to life acain | D |
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Mit von drementous shkreem of pliss | E |
His drue lofe shtood de shock | B |
Den catcht him wildly py de nose | E |
Ach Torenborg lev'st du nock | B |
Ach ja du aint'st nod tead yet | O |
Dere's life shdill lef' pehind | O |
Gott pless de dat lef' dy nose | E |
Shdill wafin in de wind | O |
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Mit hands all ofer diamonds | E |
She loosed de sand apout | O |
Mit an oyster shell so wildly | N |
She digged her lofer out | O |
Und now dou'rt in free air lofe | J |
Who warst shoost now in sand | O |
Dere vasn't ish a nicer man | D |
In all de Nederland | O |
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Vhere vas dit liedeken written | D |
Vhere vas dit liedeken sing | B |
Dat had gedone Hans Breitmann | D |
In de town of Schevening | B |
'Tvas written ober Rheinwein | D |
'Tvas written ober bier | D |
Und wer das lied gesungen hat | O |
Gott geb ihm ein glucklich's jahr | D |
Charles G. Leland
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