This is an analysis of Suum Cuique by John Dryden.
When lawless men their neighbours dispossess,
The tenants they extirpate or oppress,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaaccbbaaXeXfggccfXhhaXeeaaiicceeccccafjkkddddllaaejXcXammXkffddccXigXeeeccnneeff
- Stanza lengths: 89,
- Metre: 1101110101 0101101101 1111000101 1011010101 0101010101 0111010001 10101001101 0101010101 1101010001 1101010001 0111010011 11011010111 11110111101 0101110001 1111010101 0111010101 1101010101 0101011100 1101110001 11010101010 1111111101 1101000101 1001111101 1001010001 1001110001 101110100101 11001000100 0101010101 0101110101 11111001111 01110100100 1101010101 1010110011 1101100101 0101010101 0101000101 1100010111 1101110001 01001011101 1101011101 000100111 0101010101 0101010101 1001110001 0101010101 1101011101 1111000100 0101011101 1110000100 101101010100 110111001 0100110101 1101011101 1111010001 1101010101 1101010111 0111100101 0101010101 111000101101 01001010111 111101000100 11010100101 00101010110 1111010001 1101010101 0101010101 1101001000 101101010100 0111001001 1101010101 11010001101 01010100111 0011100101 1101011111 0100010111 1001010101 0100100101 01010001010 1100110101 1111010101 1011010101 1111010101 1101000101 0101010111 1011110101 01010001001 1101010101 0111010101 0101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 89
Repeated words/phrases
and, their, to, his
Anaphora
the, to