Analysis of Benjamin Franklin
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Franklin fathered bastards fourteen,
(So I read in the New Yorker);
If it's true, in terms of courtin'
Benny must have been a corker.
To be prudent I've aspired,
And my passions I have mastered;
So that I have never sired
A single bastard.
One of course can never know;
But I think that if I had
It would give me quite a glow
When a kiddie called me 'Dad.'
Watching toddlers at their play,
Parentage I'd gladly claim,
But their mothers smiling say:
'You're not to blame.'
Ben founded the Satevepost,
And for that I much respect him;
But fourteen is quite a host
Paternally to elect him.
'Fatherhood is not a crime,'
Deemed fat Ben, 'there could be others . . .
Darlings, I had not the time
To wed your mothers.'
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH CIXIJKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101011 11100110 1110111 10111010 1110101 01101110 1111101 01010 1111101 1111111 1111101 1010111 1010111 1001101 1110101 1111 11001 01111011 1111101 11011 101101 11111110 1011101 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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