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 CCOCCCMT| Uns 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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About The First Edition Of Breitmann - Showing How And Why It Was That It Never Appeared
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