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

The world is full of orphans: firstly, those
Who are so in the strict sense of the phrase ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabb cdcdcXee fgfgXgcc ececechh eieXeiXe gagaXbjh kekekeXl gigigiee ajajajml ememXmnn hbXbhXgg ogogogpp aeaeaebb gegXgeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 1110011001 110010101001 1101000101 0111111101 1101001101 1101010100 1101000111 01110101111 11110101011 01011101011 1101111101 1111010111 1000110111 01001011101 10001110001 1001100101 11111111010 0101110101 01110101110 010100101110 01110111010 10010010010 010010100111 11111000111 11010011101 0101010011 01010011101 1101011111 0101011101 11010001010 011110110010 1001011100 11010100101 1101011001 1111110101 0101000100 1101110111 1111110101 1101010111 11110101010 0111110111 01110011011 0101010001 01000110100 1001010101 11010101011 01010111010 0100100101 1101011111 110110101 1101010101 10010011111 1101110111 100111010000 1110110100 11010110001 01110101010 1111010101 10110100110 0111111110 01011111010 1101110101 1101010001 10001101110 1011110101 00110011010 1001111101 01010111010 0111010111 011111111101 010110010100 011111010010 1101001101 01111100110 1111011111 111011001111 1111111101 0001010101 0111110001 100111101010 10111011010 10011111010 101110000100 10101101010 111101010110 1111111011 1101111101 1101010001 10010111010 1101010101 10110010010 1001010111 01111001010 0111110001 0111000111 1101010111 0101110111 0111011111 0100111111 110010101001 0100110111 0110011101 010100101 1100010111 110001111 10111000111 101110111010 0111010101 0111010101 1111010111 0101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; their, or, so, his, i, yet are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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