The document describes Lord Byron's poem 'Don Juan,' a mock-epic that serves as an epic satire exploring themes of love, sexuality, and the hypocrisy surrounding marriage. It features a comic tone, personal style, and employs a structured rhyme scheme, particularly using ottava rima. The poem follows the adventures of Juan, detailing his early love, shipwreck, enslavement, and rise into English aristocracy.

2. ABOUT POEM
 Form: mock-epic
(Byron called it an ‘Epic
Satire’ )
 (1819–24)
 Byron's masterpiece
 based on the Legend of
Don Juan

3. STRUCTURALANALYSIS
Number of lines:
entire poem (over 16000 )
first 13 stanzas ( 104 lines)
 CANTOS (16 cantos,
17th – unfinished )
Themes : love, sexuality ,
hypocrisy of parents and
husbands toward love
and marriage, seduction …
 Tone : comic
 Style : personal and subjective

4. Rhyme :
His mother was a learned lady, famed
For every branch of every science known
In every Christian language ever named,
With virtues equall'd by her wit alone,
She made the cleverest people quite ashamed,
And even the good with inward envy groan,
Finding themselves so very much exceeded
In their own way by all the things that she did
- rhyme scheme ab ab ab cc
- eight line iambic pentameter
- Ottava rima (eight-line stanza )
- mostly 10 syllables per line

5. Figures of speech
“Thou shalt believe in Milton,
Dryden, Pope; Thou shalt not set
up Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Southey, Because the first is crazed
beyond all hope, The second drunk,
the third so quaint and mouthy;”
- IRONY , SARCASM
“Palace, or garden, paradise, or
cavern,
Which serves the happy couple for
a tavern.” – PERSONIFICATION

6. ‘’Her thoughts were
theorems, her words a
problem,
As if she deem'd that mystery
would ennoble 'em. ‘’ –
SIMILE
‘’to begin with the
beginning’’
‘’learned lady’’
‘’And he himself obliged to
shut up shop ‘’
- ALLITERATION

7. SHORT SUMMARY
 Juan’s birth and his
education
his early love affair with
Julia
a shipwreck on the voyage
from Seville
a romantic encounter with
Haidée

8. enslavement by Haidées
pirate father
a trip to Turkey
service in Russia for Catherine
the Great
finally entrance into English
aristocratic society
and a possible affair with a
Dutchess

9. Student : Ajla Piljug Profesor : Majda Nizamić