This is an analysis of Answered Extempore By Dr. Swift by Jonathan Swift.
We both are mortal; but thou, frailer creature,
May'st die, like me, by chance, but not by nature.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa
- Stanza lengths: 2,
- Metre: 11110111010 11111111110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 2