How did Benjamin Franklin develop his skills as a writer?

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?

In marian anderson sings the author begins the story by putting the reader right in the middle of the action what is the yearn for this type of organization

The waves crash on the shore ? alliteration ,assonance,onomatopoeia