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which technique does alexander pope use in this excerpt from his poem "essay on man"?
know, then, thyself, presume not god to scan;
the proper study of mankind is man.
placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
a being darkly wise, and rudely great:
with too much knowledge for the sceptic side,
with too much weakness for the stoic's pride,
a.
caesura
b.
enjambment

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