No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFF GGHH| There was a man in our town who had King Midas' touch | A |
| He gave away his millions to the colleges and such | A |
| And people cried The hypocrite He ought to understand | B |
| The ones who really need him are the children of this land | B |
| When Andrew Croesus built a home for children who were sick | C |
| The people said they rather thought he did it as a trick | C |
| And writers said He thinks about the drooping girls and boys | D |
| But what about conditions with the men whom he employs | D |
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| There was a man in our town who said that he would share | E |
| His profits with his laborers for that was only fair | E |
| And people said Oh isn't he the shrewd and foxy gent | F |
| It cost him next to nothing for that free adv rtisement | F |
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| There was a man in our town who had the perfect plan | G |
| To do away with poverty and other ills of man | G |
| But he feared the public jeering and the folks who would defame him | H |
| So he never told the plan he had and I can hardly blame him | H |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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