à Bas Ben Adhem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCC CCDDEE FFGGCC HHIIJJ KKCCDD| My fellow man I do not care for | A |
| I often ask me What's he there for | A |
| The only answer I can find | B |
| Is Reproduction of his kind | B |
| If I'm supposed to swallow that | C |
| Winnetka is my habitat | C |
| Isn't it time to carve Hic Jacet | C |
| Above that Reproduction racket | C |
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| To make the matter more succint | C |
| Suppose my fellow man extinct | C |
| Why who would not approve the plan | D |
| Save possibly my fellow man | D |
| Yet with a politician's voice | E |
| He names himself as Nature's choice | E |
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| The finest of the human race | F |
| Are bad in figure worse in face | F |
| Yet just because they have two legs | G |
| And come from storks instead of eggs | G |
| They count the spacious firmament | C |
| As something to be charged and sent | C |
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| Though man created cross town traffic | H |
| The Daily Mirror News and Graphic | H |
| The pastoral fight and fighting pastor | I |
| And Queen Marie and Lady Astor | I |
| He hails himself with drum and fife | J |
| And bullies lower forms of life | J |
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| Not that I think much depends | K |
| On how we treat our feathered friends | K |
| Or hold the wrinkled elephant | C |
| A nobler creature than my aunt | C |
| It's simply that I'm sure I can | D |
| Get on without my fellow man | D |
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