Analysis of Don Juan: Canto the Twelfth
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
But now I will begin my poem. 'Tis
Perhaps a little strange, if not quite new,
That from the first of Cantos up to this
I've not begun what we have to go through.
These first twelve books are merely flourishes,
Preludios, trying just a string or two
Upon my lyre, or making the pegs sure;
And when so, you shall have the overture.LV
My Muses do not care a pinch of rosin
About what's call'd success, or not succeeding:
Such thoughts are quite below the strain they have chosen;
'Tis a "great moral lesson" they are reading.
I thought, at setting off, about two dozen
Cantos would do; but at Apollo's pleading
If that my Pegasus should not be founder'd,
I think to canter gently through a hundred.
Scheme | XAXAXAXX BCBCBCXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011101 0101011111 110111111 1101111111 1111110100 11010111 0111110011 01111101 11011101110 01110111010 111101011110 10110101110 11110101110 1111101010 11110011110 11110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 759 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 270 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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