This is an analysis of the poem Don Juan Aux Enfers (Don Juan In Hell) that begins with:
Quand Don Juan descendit vers l'onde souterraine
Et lorsqu'il eut donné son obole à Charon,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXXb cXXX ccXc D eabd dddb fgdh agid ajgj X i kckc lele gcgc XXgd jmjm i D djXj mcmc fjfj inin momo a D dcXc jeje bhbh ijij ajaj Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011100 11001111010 111011110 111011101100 101110111100 1101110101100 1111100100100 101010111000 100111010110 101101101110 101111011100 01100110111 100111111111 10110111110 1010101110 11110010110 111110111001 111011110011 101111110 1000101111011 11010 111010001011 1111100100010 1101000100011 10110110001 1011011110001 1010110100110 110110101010 001001101001 100001101001 11010010010 1100011000101 01001111011 100001010111 101001111010 100101010101 1110010001100 010010011101 110101110011 1010011010100 110101111101 010110100 1101 11010001001 111010001 1110000101 0101110101 01010111010 1101010011 11110101010 1001011101 10010101010 1110010101 101101010010 0111010101 10010111010 1011001001 10010001010 1111010101 0111010101 1001011111 1011010101 1111010111 0101110 11010 1101110001001 1101101110111 0101011011000 10110010001011 1011010110111 010101011101 010111010101 100111010011 1001010001001 1011101000101 0001011110011 100100110111 111101110101 01011100001101 100100100011 0100001101011 011101111101 1101110011101 10110100101001 10000010010100 0101110 11010 1001110001001 101101100101 010100111000 0110001110101 0101111000101 0101001100101 011101110011 110101010101 1001010101011 10101001010101 0101010010101 1010111010111 010111100101 0101001010111 010100110011 110111110111 010101011101 110110011011 100101010101 010101110101 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 113
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; son, le, and, her, his, to, in, of, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
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