Breitmann's Sleigh-ride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCC CDBDBBBB CECEDDCD DDFDDFBF CFCGBBBB ABABBHCH AFCFBIBG CJCJFFFF CFCFBFIF FGCFBCBC BFCFFFCF| Ven de winter make oos shifer | A |
| Und de bonds is froze mit ice | B |
| To shlide und shkate on de rifer | A |
| Mit de poys und gals is nice | B |
| Ven de horses hafe deir bits on | C |
| Und de roats pe vite mit shnow | C |
| To vly in a sleigh like blitzen | C |
| Is de yolliest dings I know | C |
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| Und its high hooray saidt Breitmann | C |
| For de gals on de Dutchtown side | D |
| Und it's lebe hoch for de yunglins | B |
| Vot'll go mit de gals to ride | D |
| Und it's hip herj for de drifers | B |
| Vot nefer dake no odds | B |
| Und it's vivat for de vellers | B |
| Vot'll shtand de apple tods | B |
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| Der Breitmann pooled his mits on | C |
| Der Breitmann crocked his vip | E |
| Now its fly like dunner blitzen | C |
| Mein shildren let 'er rip | E |
| Like de eagles on de shtorm cloudt | D |
| A vlyin' to deir nest | D |
| Dere is opple yack a vaitin | C |
| For de von dot times de rest | D |
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| Oh mein Rapp du bist de pestest | D |
| Of horses in de land | D |
| Dou canst trafel on de grafel | F |
| Und canst shell it on de sand | D |
| Oh Rapp dere's money on id | D |
| Ton't let de Gelt go blue | F |
| I vants you show de beoples | B |
| Dis tay vot you can do | F |
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| Der Breitman mit his m dchen | C |
| Vas in a shblentit shleigh | F |
| Fritz Laufer mit his Mina | C |
| Vas yoosht agross de vay | G |
| Mit pop slets und mit yoompers | B |
| Mit horses and mit mules | B |
| Dere vas more ash vifty fellers | B |
| Come mit deir ve hi cules | B |
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| Id's Ein Zwei Drei togedder | A |
| Dey hollered klein und gross | B |
| Like de wind in shtormy wetter | A |
| Stracks vent de Deutschers los | B |
| Dey crock de vips like mooskets | B |
| Dey ring from berg to berg | H |
| Hooray exsglaim Hans Breitmann | C |
| Dot sounds like Gettysburg | H |
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| Der Breitmann und der Laufer | A |
| Vere half a mile ahet | F |
| For ven id coom to driven | C |
| De oder Dootch vere deadt | F |
| Dey vly like teufel's arrows | B |
| Mit imps oopon em gay | I |
| Dey killt five hoondred shbarrows | B |
| Vot kit indo de vay | G |
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| Dey vly like rats und blitzen | C |
| De fery gals vos doomb | J |
| Und Breitmann kept his wits on | C |
| To see vot shanse vouldt coom | J |
| He know'd de pace dey clipped it | F |
| Moost enden in a shquall | F |
| By de vay der Laufer ripped it | F |
| Und de shteeds vere ganz eg l | F |
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| Der Laufer he vos leadin' | C |
| Hans Breitmann ash he goed | F |
| Boot he tidn't see a soplin' | C |
| Dot vos lyin' in de road | F |
| Id yank dem out like marples | B |
| Mitout a will or shall | F |
| Hets downvarts in a shnow pank | I |
| Vent Laufer mit his gal | F |
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| Und ash Breitmann comed oonto it | F |
| Id kit indo his vay | G |
| Und tossed him mit his m dchen | C |
| Right indo Laufer's shleigh | F |
| Hans crab de reins like blitze' | B |
| Und go ahet like sin | C |
| Adj mein lieber Fritze | B |
| Dis dimes I scoop you in | C |
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| He vly avay like shvallows | B |
| To vhere a davern lay | F |
| Vhere de opple tod vos ploomin' | C |
| Among de Deutschers gay | F |
| Der Breitmann as he vonisht | F |
| Yoost cast von look pehind | F |
| At de lecks of Fritz und Mina | C |
| A vafin in de wind | F |
Charles G. Leland
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