![]() He is born of nobility and possessing classic and obligatory Don Juan good looks. The poem begins spelling out the fortunate beginnings of Don Juan. In 1823, Byron died while still writing the seventeenth canto, leaving the masterpiece unfinished. The third and fourth cantos were released nine months after the first two, and this unstructured production continued for five years. ![]() Following that, Byron continued his work at odd and uneven intervals, and the publication continued on the same path. Around six months after he began, the first two cantos were published. This being because Byron's work was never finished. The interesting thing to consider is what was left to be written, and what choices was Byron going to have Don Juan make that readers will never find out. Through the 17 cantos that are written Don Juan can still be found to be a man who makes choices. Readers and literary critics may consider that the overall theme and character of Don Juan differs in Byron's version, with Don Juan seemingly being more of the victim and less of a womanizer. ![]() The scheme was common in tragedies and comedies due to the use of rhymed endings that added dramatic effect. ![]() The poem is written in iambic pentameter in a rhyme scheme known as ottava rima. ![]() But Byron was not just going to write an epic poem, but a satirical epic, a comedy of Don Juan to be used as a vehicle to 'to be a little quietly facetious upon every thing,' as he told his friend Thomas Moore in 1818 (Boyd). ![]()
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