All Sorts Of Men

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ropriate way of life. This straightforward purpose allows the poet to maintain an instructive tone. She is never outright derogatory, yet she makes her opinion clear through her rationale, and suggestions.
“All Sorts of Men” flows logically from the prevailing situation to the benefits of the proposed replacement. Essentially, the poet believes that all men want wealth, power, and happiness and in general they obtain these things by becoming grand in the public eye. However, these methods of achieving those ends are inherently insufficient because each method spurns greed and each gain is immediately followed by an increase in desire. The author believes this cycle of greed and desire will never end and cannot lead to contentment. She asserts that if men lead respectable lives in their country estates, and treat people well, they will have all of the wealth, power, and happiness they could ever want. Covetousness is not rewarded and leads only to malcontent, while men with greedy desires will never be satiated.
Structurally the poem is just as methodical as the poet’s argument. Each line has ten syllables written with an iambic stress scheme making the work an iambic pentameter. Furthermore, the poem is written in thirty-one rhyming couplets, which only occasionally have the necessity of alternative pronunciations. The poem’s development is...