Breitmann In Maryland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBCBCB ABABCBCBCB EFCGACBCCC HICJCBCBCB AKLGBMLDCD BNLNOGOCCC BCBCCCCCCC BBBBJACACCA JBABDDBDCCD BBLBBBCBCCCBCBDer 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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