Ostende Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDCACAC EAFAAGHG AHCHCAAA HHDHAIDJ DDJDACCC DKHKCGCHHupsa jonker Jan | A |
Die wel ruiter worden kan | A |
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Boon tidings to der Breitmann came | B |
Ash he at table end | C |
Dere's right goot fisch at Blankenberghe | D |
Und oysters in Ostend | C |
Denn to Ostland ve will reiten gaen | A |
To Ostland o'er de sand | C |
Dou und I mit pridle drawn | A |
For dere ish de oyster land | C |
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Und vhen dey shtood bei Ostersee | E |
Vhere de waters roar like sin | A |
Dere coom five hundert fischer volk | F |
To dake der Breitmann in | A |
Gotts doonder Should ve doomple down | A |
Amoong de waters plue | G |
I kess you'd vant more help from me | H |
Dan I should vant from you | G |
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If you hat peen vhere I hafe peen | A |
Und see vot I hafe see | H |
Vhere de surf rise oop nine tausend feet | C |
In de land of Nieuw Jarsie | H |
Und schwimmed dat surf ash I hafe schwimmed | C |
Peside de Jersey stran' | A |
From dat day fort' de Ostland men | A |
Shdeered glear of der Breitemann | A |
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Boot von ding set him schvearin so | H |
I dinked he'd nefer cease | H |
De Ostend oysters kostet more | D |
In Ostend als Paris | H |
Hans asked an anciendt fisherman | A |
To 'splain dis if he may | I |
Und says he Mijn Heer dey're beter hier | D |
Als ein hundert leagues afay | J |
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Und as de oysters beter hier | D |
Of course dey kostet more | D |
Der Breitmann dook his bilcrim shdaff | J |
Und toorned him to de toor | D |
Says Hans De Vlaemsche fischermen | A |
Can sheat de vorldt I pet | C |
Dey sheaten von anoder too | C |
All's fisch to a Dutchman's net | C |
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Der king peginned a palace hier | D |
De palace hat to shtop | K |
He foundt de beoples sheaten so | H |
He gife de bildin oop | K |
Aldough das Leben hier ish goot | C |
Ad least Ostend sibly | G |
So shpoke der Breitemann und cut | C |
Dat city py de sea | H |
Charles G. Leland
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