Benjamin Franklin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDD ADA EFE DGDG HI| Franklin fathered bastards fourteen | A |
| So I read in the New Yorker | B |
| If it's true in terms of courtin' | A |
| Benny must have been a corker | B |
| To be prudent I've aspired | C |
| And my passions I have mastered | D |
| So that I have never sired | D |
| A single bastard | D |
| - | |
| One of course can never know | A |
| But I think that if I had | D |
| It would give me quite a glow | A |
| When a kiddie called me 'Dad ' | - |
| Watching toddlers at their play | E |
| Parentage I'd gladly claim | F |
| But their mothers smiling say | E |
| 'You're not to blame ' | - |
| - | |
| Ben founded the Satevepost | D |
| And for that I much respect him | G |
| But fourteen is quite a host | D |
| Paternally to elect him | G |
| 'Fatherhood is not a crime ' | - |
| Deemed fat Ben 'there could be others | H |
| Darlings I had not the time | I |
| To wed your mothers ' | - |
Robert William Service
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