This is an analysis of the poem Don Juan: Canto The Fourteenth that begins with:

If from great nature's or our own abyss
Of thought we could but snatch a certainty, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababcc dededecc fgfgbghh fdfdfdii jjjjjXdd kekekXdd fefefeac XXiciccc lmlmlmmm ngngngoo cbcbcbmm aeaeaepp eaeaeabb bXbeXeXX dededecc dcdcdXbb lololofb pjXjpjmm dpdpdXee cocoXoqq XdmdmdXd oXocoXll ldldldcX dXdedeee kckckcee rdrdrdXX lololooo fpfpfpdd cdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 102
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 816
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, i, why, or, and, to, they, it, their, in, his, not, her, she, hate, as, that, ', thou, had, would are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, a, i, and, the, some, but, that, thou, her, how are repeated.

    The author used the same words 'tis, but, and, shut, she, whether at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines not, ', be are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.

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