So Shines A Good Deed In A Naughty World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE FGHGIJKJ ALMLNOAP QRRSTAT| There was a man in our town and he | A |
| was wondrous rich | B |
| He gave away his millions to the colleges | C |
| and sich | B |
| And people cried The hypocrite He ought | D |
| to understand | E |
| The ones who really need him are the children | F |
| of this land | E |
| - | |
| When Andrew Croesus built a home for children | F |
| who were sick | G |
| The people said they rather thought he did it | H |
| as a trick | G |
| And writers said He thinks about the drooping | I |
| girls and boys | J |
| But what about conditions with the men whom | K |
| he employs | J |
| - | |
| There was a man in our town who said that he | A |
| would share | L |
| His profits with his laborers for that was | M |
| only fair | L |
| And people said Oh isn't he the shrewd and | N |
| foxy gent | O |
| It cost him next to nothing for that free | A |
| advertisement | P |
| - | |
| There was a man in our town who had the perfect | Q |
| plan | R |
| To do away with poverty and other ills of man | R |
| But he feared the public jeering and the folks | S |
| who would defame him | T |
| So he never told the plan he had and I can hardly | A |
| blame him | T |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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