Breitmann In Maryland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBCBCB ABABCBCBCB EFCGACBCCC HICJCBCBCB AKLGBMLDCD BNLNOGOCCC BCBCCCCCCC BBBBJACACCA JBABDDBDCCD BBLBBBCBCCCBCB| Der Breitmann mit his gompany | A |
| Rode out in Marylandt | B |
| Dere's nix to trink in dis countrie | C |
| ine droat's as dry as sand | B |
| It's light canteen und haversack | D |
| It's hoonger mixed mit doorst | B |
| Und if ve had some lager beer | C |
| I'd trink oontil I boorst | B |
| Gling glang gloria | C |
| Ve'd trink oontil ve boorst | B |
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| Herr Leut'nant take a dozen men | A |
| Und ride dis land around | B |
| Herr Feldwebel go foragin' | A |
| Dill somedings goot is found | B |
| Gotts donder men go ploonder | C |
| Ve hafn't trinked a bit | B |
| Dis fourdeen hours If I had beer | C |
| I'd sauf oontil I shplit | B |
| Gling glang gloria | C |
| Ve'd sauf oontil ve shplit | B |
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| At mitternacht a horse's hoofs | E |
| Coom rattlin' droo de camp | F |
| Rouse dere coom rouse der house dere | C |
| Herr Copitain ve moost tromp | G |
| De scouds have found a repel town | A |
| Mit repel davern near | C |
| A repel keller in de cround | B |
| Mit repel lager beer | C |
| Gling glang gloria | C |
| All fool of lager beer | C |
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| Gottsdonnerkreuzschockschwerenoth | H |
| How Breitmann broked de bush | I |
| O let me see dat lager beer | C |
| O let me at him rush | J |
| Und is mein sabre sharp und true | C |
| Und is mein var horse goot | B |
| To get one quart of lager beer | C |
| I'd shpill a sea of ploot | B |
| Gling glang gloria | C |
| I'd shpill a sea of ploot | B |
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| Fuenf hoonderd repels hold de down | A |
| One hoonderd strong are ve | K |
| Who gares a tam for all de odds | L |
| Vhen men so dirsty pe | G |
| And in dey smashed and down dey crashed | B |
| Like donder polts dey fly | M |
| Rash fort as der vild y ger cooms | L |
| Mit blitzen droo de shky | D |
| Gling glang gloria | C |
| Like blitzen droo de shky | D |
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| How flewed to rite how flewed to left | B |
| De moundains drees und hedge | N |
| How left und rite de y ger corps | L |
| Vent donderin' droo de pridge | N |
| Und splash und splosh dey ford de shtream | O |
| Vhere not some pridges pe | G |
| All dripplin' in de moondlight peam | O |
| Stracks vent de Cavallrie | C |
| Gling glang gloria | C |
| Der Breitmann's cavallrie | C |
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| Und hoory hoory on dey rote | B |
| Oonheedin' vet or try | C |
| Und horse und rider shnort and blowed | B |
| Und shparklin' bepples fly | C |
| Ropp Ropp I shmell de parley prew | C |
| Dere's somedings goot ish near | C |
| Ropp Ropp I scent de kneiperei | C |
| Ve've got to lager beer | C |
| Gling glang gloria | C |
| Ve've got to lager beer | C |
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| Hei how de carpine pullets klinged | B |
| Oopon de helmets hart | B |
| Oh Breitmann how dy sabre ringed | B |
| Du alter Knasterbart | B |
| De contrapands dey sing for shoy | J |
| To see de rebs go down | A |
| Und hear der Breitmann grimly gry | C |
| Hoorah ve've dook de down | A |
| Gling glang gloria | C |
| Victoria victoria | C |
| De Dootch have dook de down | A |
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| Mid shout and crash and sabre flash | J |
| And vild husaren shout | B |
| De Dootchmen boorst de keller in | A |
| Und rolled de lager out | B |
| Und in de coorlin' powder shmoke | D |
| Vhile shtill de pullets sung | D |
| Dere shtood der Breitmann axe in hand | B |
| A knockin' out de boong | D |
| Gling glang gloria | C |
| Victoria Encoria | C |
| De shpicket beats de boong | D |
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| Gotts vot a shpree der Breitmann had | B |
| Vhile yet his hand was red | B |
| A trinkin' lager from his poots | L |
| Among de repel tead | B |
| 'Tvas dus dey vent at mitternight | B |
| Along der moundain side | B |
| 'Tvas dus dey help make history | C |
| Dis vas der Breitmann's ride | B |
| Gling glang gloria | C |
| Victoria Victoria | C |
| Cer'visia encoria | C |
| De treadful mitnight ride | B |
| Of Breitmann's vild Freischarlinger | C |
| All famous broad und vide | B |
Charles G. Leland
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