This is an analysis of Mankind by John Dryden.
Men are but children of a larger growth;
Our appetites are apt to change as theirs,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaaX
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 1111000101 1101110111 1111011111 1101110011 10110111110 1101011011 11010111010 001101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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