This is an analysis of the poem Don Juan: Dedication that begins with:

Difficile est proprie communia dicere
HOR. Epist. ad PisonI ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcbcbcdXXeXeXefX ghghghXX XififijX fffffffX bcbcbcjX igigigdX ieieiXiX afdfafgX ikiXikfX ililildX blblblbX ijijijfX eeeeeeiX ebebebcX iaXdidjX bgbXbgff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10001110010 1101010 110101010100 1101000101 111111110101 1111000101 111101011111 0101001101 0101010011 11011010001 1011010101010 011111010 101010101010 1101011101 1101110101 1101010001 01010100010 111101010000 1111010011 1101010011 0101110101 1001010001 1111001011 1101010101 10110111111 111101010110 1100010110000 11010111010 110010001010 00110001010 11001110010 11011101110 11110101010 010100010010 11001101010 0101001111 11111101010 0101011111 01101100010 110111101 10010001010 111111111100 1111010101 1111101101 1101010101 1101111001 11110011111 1101010001 1101011101 110101001010 1111010011 01110010101 0111010111 1101110101 0101010101 10111100101 1101011101 11010010000 1111000010010 011011011 11111111110 0111010111 11010101010 0100010111 0101010011 01010101010 110101010100 11110101010 110001110101 101010101010 1111111100100 01110001010 0101011001 0111111111 01001011101 1001000101 010010100001 11011000011011 1110010101 1101010001 10110100101 11010101100 1111011101 1100010111 0101100100 1001010111 0111011101 1101011111 1101010101 010100101000 1101110100 10001110101 1111010101 0101010101 01001110011 0101010111 0101010101 11010101010 1100011101 1000010001 110010100111 1111010101 11001010111 01010100101 11110101010 0101110100100 01010000101 1101010101 1001010101 1001110001 0100110001 1011001111 01001101111 0111010101 0111010101 0101000100 1111010111 10010110111 1000010101 0111010101 1001110101 0101010000100 1111110101 1101010100 1101010110 01010111101 1101110111 1101010111 1011101101 11010101010 1111001010101 0101010101 1001001111101 111101110110 110111110101 1000110001 011101110100 001111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 142
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with, his, he, be, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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