Breitmann In Politics I. The Nomination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED CEAEBFBB DABACAAG HIBIBCAC JAB KDA LMBMACAC BCDCBADA CBBNAACA BCOCCBCB DDADDBBB| Vhen ash de var vas ober | A |
| und Beace her shnow wice vings | B |
| Vas vafin' o'er de coondry | A |
| in shpodts like efery dings | B |
| Und heroes vere revardtet | C |
| de beople all pegan | D |
| To say 'tvas shame | E |
| dat nodings vas done for Breitemann | D |
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| No man wised how id vas shtartet | C |
| or vhere de fore shlog came | E |
| Boot dey shveared it vas a cinder | A |
| dereto a purnin' shame | E |
| Dere is Schnitzerl in de Gustom House | B |
| potzblitz can dis dings be | F |
| Und Breitemann he hafe nodings | B |
| vot sighds is dis to see | B |
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| Nod de virst ret cendt for Breitmann | D |
| ish dis do pe de gry | A |
| On de man dat sacked de repels | B |
| und trinked dem high und dry | A |
| By meine Seel' I shvears id | C |
| und vhat's more I deglares id's drue | A |
| He vonce gleaned oudt a down in half an our | A |
| und shtripped id strumpf und shoe | G |
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| Vhen dey ploondered de down of Huntsville | H |
| I dells you vot py tam | I |
| He burned oop four biano fords | B |
| and a harp to roast a ham | I |
| Vhen he found de rouge und mail de Paris | B |
| which de laties hafe hid in a shpot | C |
| He whited his horse all ofer | A |
| und denn pinked his ears bei Gott | C |
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| Vhen he found dat a blace was ploonder fool | J |
| he alvays tell dem sure | A |
| 'Men sack und pack I shoots mine eyes | B |
| for only shoost an uhr ' | - |
| Boot if de blace vas fery rich | K |
| he vouldt say mit a solemn mien | D |
| 'Men I only shleep for von half uhr more | A |
| ve moost hafe tiscipline ' | - |
| - | |
| He vas shoost like K nig Etzel | L |
| of whom de shdory dell | M |
| Der Hun who go for de Romans | B |
| und gife dem shinin hell | M |
| Only dis dat dey say no grass vouldt crow | A |
| vhere Etzel's horse had trot | C |
| Und I really peliefe vhere Breitmann go | A |
| de hops shpring oop bei Gott | C |
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| If once you tie a dog loose | B |
| dere ish more soon geds aroundt | C |
| Und vhen dis vas shtartedt on Breitmann | D |
| id was rings aroom be foundt | C |
| Dough vhy he moost hafe somedings | B |
| vas nod by no means glear | A |
| Nor tid id like Paulus' confersion | D |
| on de snap to all abbear | A |
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| Und in facdt Balthazar Bumchen saidt | C |
| he couldtent nicht blainly see | B |
| Vhy a feller for gaddrin' riches | B |
| shood dus revartedt pe | N |
| Der Breitmann own drei Houser | A |
| mit a weinhandle in a stohr | A |
| Dazu ein Lager Wirthschaft | C |
| und sonst was somedings more | A |
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| Dis plasted plackguard none sense | B |
| ve couldn't no means shtand | C |
| From a narrow mineted shvine's kopf | O |
| of our nople captain grand | C |
| Soosh low goarse betty bornirtheit | C |
| a shentleman deplores | B |
| So ve called him verfluchter Hundsfott | C |
| und shmysed him out of toors | B |
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| So ve all dissolfed dat Breitmann | D |
| shouldt hafe a nomination | D |
| To go to de Legisladoor | A |
| to make some dings off de nation | D |
| Mit de helb of a Connedigut man | D |
| in whom ve hafe great hobes | B |
| Who hat shange his boledics fivdeen dimes | B |
| und derefore knew de robes | B |
Charles G. Leland
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