[323] Don Juan, IX., 73.
[324] Ibid., XIII., 100.
[325] Don Juan, III., 96.
[326] See Ibid., I., 9; II., 8; III., 110; IV., 113; VI., 57, and numerous other instances.
[327] Only in Canto II. does the story begin at once; every other canto has a preliminary disquisition. Canto IX., containing eighty-five stanzas, uses forty-one of them before the narrative begins, and of the entire number, forty-six are clearly made up of extraneous material. Of the ninety stanzas in Canto XI., over fifty are occupied with Byron’s satire on English society and contemporary events. Canto II. is, of course, filled largely with the shipwreck and the episode of Haidée; but in Canto III., over forty of the entire one hundred and eleven stanzas are discursive, and many others are partly so.
[328] Beppo, 52.
[329] For other rhymes of exceptional peculiarity, see Don Juan, I., 102; II., 206; II., 207; V., 5.
[330] Ibid., I., 22.
[331] Ibid., II., 1.
[332] Don Juan, I., 6.