Breitmann In Politics I. The Nomination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED CEAEBFBB DABACAAG HIBIBCAC JAB KDA LMBMACAC BCDCBADA CBBNAACA BCOCCBCB DDADDBBBVhen 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 ' | - |
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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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