The First Edition Of Breitmann - Showing How And Why It Was That It Never Appeared Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAAAABCBCBADAE AAFABGCG CBBBAHII AJAJKACA CLJLIBJB CACABJAJ ABABAACA ABJBAMJM NCCCBBAB CIAICJBJ JCBCOABA CLPLBCCC CQCQABAB BBIBAOJC CCACBCRC CCCCCCCC OCCCCICI CCCCCCAC CCCCACCC CAIACCCC CCACCCCC CCACSCAC CCCCACAC ACACCOAO CACASCCC CCCCACSC CIOICCAT OACACCCC CCOCCCMTUns ist in alten Maeren | A |
wunders viel geseit | B |
Von Helden lobebaeren | A |
von grosser Arebeit | B |
Von Festen und Hochzeiten | A |
von Weinen und Klagen | A |
Von kuehnen Recken Streiten | A |
m ht Ihr nun Wunder h ren sagen | A |
Der Nibelungen Lied | B |
DO oos in anciend shdory | C |
Crate voonders ish peen told | B |
Of lapors fool of glory | C |
Of heroes bluff und bold | B |
Of high oldt times a kitin | A |
Of howlin und of tears | D |
Of kissin and of vightin | A |
All dis we likes to hears | E |
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Dere growed once dimes in Schwaben | A |
Since fifty years pegan | A |
An shild of decend elders | F |
His name Hans Breitemann | A |
De gross adfentures dat he had | B |
If you will only look | G |
Ish all bescribed so truly | C |
In dis fore lyin book | G |
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Und allaweil dese lieder | C |
Vere goin troo his het | B |
De writer lay von Sonntay | B |
a shleepin in his bett | B |
Vhen lo a yellow bigeon | A |
Coom to him in a dream | H |
De same dat Mr Barnum | I |
Vonce had in his Mus um | I |
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Und dus out shprach de bigeon | A |
If you should brint de songs | J |
Or oder dings of Breitmann | A |
Vhich to dem on belongs | J |
Dey will tread de road of Sturm and Drang | K |
Die wile es m hte leben | A |
Und be mis geborn in pattle | C |
To dis fate ish it ergeben | A |
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Und dus rebly de dreamer | C |
If on de ice it shlip | L |
Denn led id dake ids shanses | J |
Rip Sam und let 'er rip | L |
Dou say'st id vill pe sturmy | I |
Vot sturmy ish ish crand | B |
Crates heroes ish de beoples | J |
In Uncle Samuel's land | B |
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Du bist ein rechter Gelbschnabel | C |
O golden bigeon mine | A |
Und I'll fighdt id on dis summer | C |
If id dakes me all dis line | A |
Full liddle ish de discount | B |
Oopon de Yankee peeps | J |
Go to hell exglaim de bigeon | A |
Foreby vas all mine shleeps | J |
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Dere vent to Sout Carolina | A |
A shentleman who dinked | B |
Dat te pallads of der Breitmann | A |
Should papered pe und inked | B |
Und dat he vouldt fixed de brintin | A |
Before de writer know | A |
Dis make to many a brinter | C |
Fool many a bitter woe | A |
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All in de down of Charleston | A |
A druckerei he found | B |
Where dey cut de copy into takes | J |
Und sorted it around | B |
Und all vas goot peginnen | A |
For no man heeded mooch | M |
Dat half de jours vas Mericans | J |
Und half of dem vas Dutch | M |
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Und vorser shtill anoder half | N |
Had vorn de Federal plue | C |
Vhile de anti half in Davis grey | C |
Had peen Confeterates true | C |
Great Himmel vot a shindy | B |
Vas shdarted in de crowd | B |
Vhen some von read Hans Breitmann | A |
His Barty all aloud | B |
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Und von goot nadured Yankee | C |
He schwear id vos a shame | I |
To dell soosh lies on Dutchmen | A |
Und make of dem a game | I |
Boot dis make mad Fritz Luder | C |
Und he schwear dis treat of Hans | J |
Vos shoost so goot a barty | B |
Ash any oder man's | J |
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Und dat nodings vas so looscious | J |
In all dis eartly shpeer | C |
Ash a quart mug fool of sauer kraut | B |
Mit a plate of lager bier | C |
Dat de Yankee might pe tam mit himself | O |
For he der Fritz hafe peen | A |
In many soosh a barty | B |
Und all dose dings hafe seen | A |
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All mad oopsproong de Yankee | C |
Mit all his passion ripe | L |
Und vired at Fritz mit de shootin shtick | P |
Vheremit he vas fixin type | L |
It hit him on de occupit | B |
Und laid him on de floor | C |
For many a long day afder | C |
I ween his het was sore | C |
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Dis roused Piet Weiser der Pfaelzer | C |
Who vas quick to act und dink | Q |
He helt in hand a roller | C |
Vheremit he vas rollin ink | Q |
Und he dake his broof py shtrikin | A |
Der Merican top of his het | B |
Und make soosh a vine impression | A |
Dat he left de veller for deat | B |
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Allaweil dese dings oonfolded | B |
Dere vas rows of anoder kind | B |
Und drople in de wigwam | I |
Enough to trife dem plind | B |
Und a crate six vooted Soudern man | A |
Vot hafe vorked on a Refiew | O |
Shvear he hope to Gott he mighd pie de forms | J |
If de Breitmann's book warn't true | C |
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For de Sout' vas ploundered derriple | C |
Und in dat darksome hour | C |
He hafe lossed a yallow pine maiden | A |
Of all de land de vlower | C |
Bright gold doublones a hoondered | B |
For her he'd gladly bay | C |
Ash soon ash a thrip for a ginger cake | R |
Und deem it cheap dat day | C |
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To him antworded a Yorker | C |
Who shoomp den dimes de boun ti ee | C |
De only dings he lossed in de war | C |
Was a sense of broperty | C |
Says he Votefer you hafe dropped | C |
Some oder shap hafe get | C |
Und de yallow pine liked him petter ash you | C |
On dat it is safe to bet | C |
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Dead pale pecame dat Soudern brave | O |
He tidn't so moosh as yell | C |
Boot he drop right on to de Yorker | C |
Und mit von lick bust his shell | C |
Denn out he flashed his pig sticker | C |
Und mit looks of drementous gloom | I |
Rooshed vildly in de pattle | C |
Dat vas ragin round de room | I |
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Boot in angulo in de corner | C |
Anoder quarrel vas grow | C |
'Twix a Boston shap mit a Londoner | C |
Und de row ish gekommen so | C |
De Yankee say dat de H u mor | C |
Of soosh writin vas less dan small | C |
Dough it maket de beoples laughen | A |
Boot dat vas only all | C |
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Denn a Deutscher say by Donner | C |
Dat soosh a baradox | C |
Vould leafe no hope for writers | C |
In all Pandora's b nder box | C |
'Twas like de sayin dat Heine | A |
Hafe no witz in him goot or bad | C |
Boot he only kept sayin witty dings | C |
To make beoples pelieve he had | C |
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Denn de oder veller be headed | C |
Dat dere vas not a shbark of foon | A |
In de pad spelt lieds when you lead dem | I |
Into Englisch correctly done | A |
Den a Proof Sheet veller respondered | C |
For he dink de dings vas hard | C |
Dat ish shoost like de goot oldt lady | C |
Ash vent to hear Artemus Ward | C |
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Und say it vas shames de beoples | C |
Vas laugh demselfs most tead | C |
At de boor young veller lecturin | A |
Vhen he tidn't know vot he said | C |
Hereauf de Yankee answered | C |
Gaul dern it Shtop your fuss | C |
And all de crowd togeder | C |
Go slap in a grand plug muss | C |
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De Yankee shlog de Proof Sheet | C |
Soosh an awfool smock on de face | C |
Dat he shvell right oop like a poonkin | A |
Mit a sense of his tisgrace | C |
Boot der Deutscher boosted an ink keg | S |
On dop of de oder's hair | C |
It vly troo de air like a boomshell denn | A |
Mine Gotts Vot a sighdt vas dere | C |
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Denn ofer all de shapel | C |
Vierce war vas ragin loose | C |
Fool many a vighten brinter | C |
Got well ge gooked his goose | C |
Fool many a nose mit fisten | A |
I ween was padly scrouged | C |
Fool many an eye pright gleamin | A |
Vas ploody out gegouged | C |
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D wart fgehouwen | A |
Dere vas hewin off of pones | C |
D h rte man darinne | A |
Man heardt soosh treadful croans | C |
Jach waren d die Geste | C |
De row vas rough and tough | O |
Genuoge sluogen wunden | A |
Dere vas plooty wounds enough | O |
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De souls of anciend brinters | C |
From Himmel look down oopon | A |
Und allowed dat in a chapel | C |
Dere was nefer soosh carryins on | A |
Dere was Lorenz Coster mit Gutemberg | S |
Und Scheffer mit der Fust | C |
Und Sweynheim mit Pannartz trop deers | C |
Oopon dis teufel's dust | C |
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Dere vas Yankee jours extincted | C |
Who lay upon de vloor | C |
Dere vas Soudern rebs destructed | C |
Who vouldt nefer Jeff no more | C |
Ash deir souls rise oop to Heafen | A |
Dey heardt de oldt brinters' calls | C |
Und Gutemberg gifed dem all a kick | S |
Ash he histed dem ofer de walls | C |
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Dat ish de vay dese Ballads | C |
Foorst vere crooshed in ploot and shdorm | I |
Fool many a day moost bass afay | O |
Pefore dey dook dis form | I |
De copy flootered o'er de preasts | C |
Of heroes lyin todt | C |
Dis vas de dire peginnin | A |
Das war des Breitmann's Noth | T |
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Dis song in Philadelphia | O |
Long dimes ago pegun | A |
In Paris vas gondinued und | C |
In Dresden ist full done | A |
If any toubt apout de facts | C |
In nople minds ish grew | C |
Let dem ashk Carl Benson Bristed | C |
He knows id all ish drue | C |
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Und now dese Breitmann shdories | C |
In gebrindt in many a lant | C |
Sogar in far Australia | O |
Dey're gestohlen und bekannt | C |
Geh hin mein Puch in alle Welt | C |
Steh auss was dir kompt zu | C |
Man beysse Dich man reysse Dich | M |
Nur dass man mir nichts thu | T |
Charles G. Leland
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