The Scoffer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFCC GGHHCC EEIIC| If I had lived in Franklin's time I'm most afraid that I | A |
| Beholding him out in the rain a kite about to fly | A |
| And noticing upon its tail the barn door's rusty key | B |
| Would with the scoffers on the street have chortled in my glee | B |
| And with a sneer upon my lips I would have said of Ben | C |
| 'His belfry must be full of bats He's raving boys again ' | D |
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| I'm glad I didn't live on earth when Fulton had his dream | E |
| And told his neighbors marvelous tales of what he'd do with steam | E |
| For I'm not sure I'd not have been a member of the throng | F |
| That couldn't see how paddle wheels could shove a boat along | F |
| At 'Fulton's Folly' I'd have sneered as thousands did back then | C |
| And called the Clermont's architect the craziest of men | C |
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| Yet Franklin gave us wonders great and Fulton did the same | G |
| And many 'boobs' have left behind an everlasting fame | G |
| And dead are all their scoffers now and all their sneers forgot | H |
| And scarce a nickel's worth of good was brought here by the lot | H |
| I shudder when I stop to think had I been living then | C |
| I might have been a scoffer too and jeered at Bob and Ben | C |
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| I am afraid to day to sneer at any fellow's dream | E |
| Time was I thought men couldn't fly or sail beneath the stream | E |
| I never call a man a boob who toils throughout the night | I |
| On visions that I cannot see because he may be right | I |
| I always think of Franklin's trick which brought the jeers of men | C |
| And to myself I say 'Who knows but here's another Ben ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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