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 DBDBDDOD| Oldt 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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