Wein Geist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCDC EFAF GFHF HDGD IACA AHJEIE FGFH EJIJ HKIK FIAI AKAI IFIFHF FAEA| I stoompled oud ov a dafern | A |
| Berauscht mit a gallon of wein | A |
| Und I rooshed along de strassen | A |
| Like a derriple Eberschwein | A |
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| Und like a lordly boar pig | B |
| I doomplet de soper folk | C |
| Und I trowed a shtone droo a shdreed lamp | D |
| Und bot' of de classes I proke | C |
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| Und a gal vent roonin' bast me | E |
| Like a vild coose on de vings | F |
| Boot I gatch her for all her skreechin' | A |
| Und giss her like efery dings | F |
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| Und denn mit an board und a parell | G |
| I blay de horse viddle a biece | F |
| Dill de neighbours shkreem deat' und murder | H |
| Und holler aloudt bolice | F |
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| Und vhen der crim night w chter | H |
| Says all of dis foon moost shtop | D |
| I oop mit mein oomberella | G |
| Und schlog him ober de kop | D |
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| I leaf him like tead on de bavemend | I |
| Und roosh droo a darklin' lane | A |
| Dill moonlighd und tisdand musik | C |
| Pring me roundt to my soul again | A |
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| Und I sits all oonder de linden | A |
| De hearts leaf linden dree | H |
| Und I dink of de quick gevanisht lofe | J |
| Dat vent like de vind from me | E |
| Und I voonders in mine dipsyhood | I |
| If a damsel or dream vas she | E |
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| Dis life is all a lindens | F |
| Mit holes dat show de plue | G |
| Und pedween de finite pranches | F |
| Cooms Himmel light shinin' troo | H |
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| De blaetter are raushlin' o'er me | E |
| Und efery leaf ish a fay | J |
| Und dey vait dill de windsbraut comet | I |
| To pear dem in Fall afay | J |
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| Denn I coomed to a rock py der rifer | H |
| Vhere a stein ish of harpe form | K |
| Jahrdausand in oud it standet' | I |
| Und nopody blays but de shtorm | K |
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| Here vonce on a dimes a vitches | F |
| Soom melodies here peginned | I |
| De harpe ward all zu steine | A |
| Die melodie ward zu wind | I |
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| Und so mit dis tox i gation | A |
| Vitch hardens de outer Me | K |
| Ueber stein and schwein de weine | A |
| Shdill harps oud a melodie | I |
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| Boot deeper de Ur lied ringet' | I |
| Ober stein und wein und svines | F |
| Dill it endeth vhere all peginnet | I |
| Und alles wird ewig zu eins | F |
| In de dipsy treamless sloomper | H |
| Vhich units de Nichts und Seyns | F |
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| Und im Mondenlicht it moormoors | F |
| Und it burns by waken wein | A |
| In M dchenlieb or Schnapsenrausch | E |
| Das Absolut ist dein | A |
Charles G. Leland
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