This is an analysis of Couplets On Wit by Alexander Pope.
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But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bb X Xc X dX X Xa a dX aXccbb
- Stanza lengths: 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,6,
- Metre: 1 1111011101 1111010101 1 1011111110 1001111101 1 1111010101 1101011101 1 1111000101 1111010111 1 11111100101 11111101011 1 1111001101 1111000101 1101110101 1111111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 24
