Ostende Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDCACAC EAFAAGHG AHCHCAAA HHDHAIDJ DDJDACCC DKHKCGCH| Hupsa 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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