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

O Love! O Glory! what are ye who fly
Around us ever, rarely to alight?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababaa cdeXedff gbhbhbce XifXfiaa cbebebjX XbkbXbhh laXalajj mnmnmnXi boboboaa pbpbpbcX pXplplmX qbqXqbmm brbrbrXX okXkokpp eXeXehXb pdpdXdXX XXapXpmm pcpXpcjj brbrbrcc cjcjcXpp rpkpXpll arararff pfpfpflp apapkpcc cXejeXXX bkbkbkkX kmkmkmbb ebebebnn raX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 87
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 696
  • 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; and, all, by, of, ye, i, as, ', in, there, his, to, he, or, 'you, 'i, you, their, every, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, by, and, the, 'let, or, oh, of, in, to, but are repeated.

    The author used the same words but, the, suwarrow, oh 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 ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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