Don Juan’s Good-Night by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Don Juan’s Good-Night that begins with:

Teach me, gentle Leporello,
Since you are so wise a fellow,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcdb eecXaX ffghhg iidbbd jXjhXj kklmml XXdccd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101000 11111010 1110111 10001010 10001111 1101110 11111111 11111011 1111100 11101000 11101110 1011101 11011110 01110110 1010011 11101010 10101010 0110101 10111110 11101110 1110101 10101011 10110110 1110101 10111011 11110111 1011111 100011110 111111010 0010101 10100110 111010010 0011101 10101110 11100010 1110001 01010010 01110100 0110011 001010110 01100110 1011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there is repeated).

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