This is an analysis of the poem Don Juan: Canto The Eighth that begins with:
The town was taken--whether he might yield
Himself or bastion, little matter'd now: ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcc dadadaee fbfbfbed gdgXgdff hiXihihh jhjhjhkk dhdhdhXk eheheXll mgmgmgdX gagagaii ahaXahaa nanaXadd dXdhdhff gdgdgXoo bjbjbjll XododXaa lblblbii kkkkkkXn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010111 0111010101 0101011101 1011010101 11010111001 1101010101 01011111010 110010101010 11011100110 1101010101 11111101010 11010110111 11010111010 1111010111 11110111001 1111011111 01111101010 1111110111 01011101110 111110111 10010101010 1101111101 10010100010 11010101110 1101010001 1101110011 1011111101 11101101000 1101010011 1110110111 11111100110 110101010010 111010010010 1111010101 00101001000 1011011101 100010101010 1111101101 1101010101 11001111101 1111111011 1111010101 1101010101001 1101010101 0101110101 1111000101 0101011101 1101010101 01110001101 01010010010 0101010101 11110001010 0101011011 01010111110 01011101110 110111001010 1011110111 11110110010 00101110111 11011101010 1111110111 01110110000 1101011101 0111110101 1101110001 1101010101 0101111111 1101011101 0111011001 0101010001 11110101000 0110001100100 1101110011 1111010101 01111010101 01010001100 1011111101 0111011101 01010100110 010011001010 1100010101 0101010001 1001001111 1000010001100 1101111101 1111011011 1101011111 0101110110 1001110001 1101110001 1111010111 1101011101 0101110110 1101010111 1000110010010 01011101001 1011010101 1101100110000 1111110101 101101100010 1101111001 01010101111 01010101110 111101001010 11010100110 1001001111 11011111010 1101010001 01011101010 0111111010 1111010111 1110010111 11001111111 110011010100 1100011101 110111111110 11110100101 100101010110 1111010001 1101111101 111101001010 1111010100 1111010101 1101111111 1101010101 0101001000 1011110001 1011000100 10111111111 1011010111 1100110101 1101001101 1100111111 1111110011 1111010011 1101111101 01111111110 11010101101 01000101010 1111111011 11110110010 11010010101 110110010 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 385
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 144
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; that, all, of, as, and, some, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Don Juan: Canto The Eighth;
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