This is an analysis of the poem Orlando Furioso Canto 1 that begins with:

CANTO 1
ARGUMENT ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXbcbXbdd efafafabb XghghghgX Xiaiaiaii Xjcjcjchh eXbebebii eXdadadXb Xkbkbkbkk Xebeblbjj Xaeaeaeii cgXgbgbjj ekbXbkbkk Xbbbbbbjj Xbbbbbbhh Xabababbb Xjkjkjkii Xamamamaa Xekekeckk Xmgmgmgaa XiaiaiaXb XheheheiX Xgigigibb Xbbbbbbkk Xebebebbb Xnananakk Xe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101 100 0100110101 1001010111 10010111001 1001000101 0101010101 1101010111 11000101110 10010101010 1 0111011111 01001100101 1011011101 1101010011 1101010011 10010111001 111100101001 1111011001 1 0011010011 1100010111 1111011101 0101110101 0110110111 1111011111 1101110111 1111010010 1 0101011111 1101011101 1000010101 1101110101 1111010101 11110110101 10110111001 1111111111 1 11010100111 1101010101 0100100101 01010101001 0101110101 0111111101 1111011101 0101110011 1 1011010010 0100111001 1101001101 010010011001 1000110101 11010001001 0100111101 1101010101 1 0111001101 01111001010 0111011101 11010001010 1101110101 01010111010 110101110110 010101101010 1 1111010101 1101010101 1011111101 0101010101 0011111101 1011010001 1001010101 01010100101 1 1101010101 0101010101 0100110111 0101010101 11011011100 1111010101 00101010101 11000100101 1 10000100010 1011011101 0001110101 1111000101 1100010101 1011010101 10010101010 10010001010 1 11110110100 0100010101 01001110001 1001010101 1001010110 1101010101 11000110101 00110100100 1 0101010101 1011010101 0111010101 1111010101 1101011101 0101000101 1101000101 11001011101 1 0111000101 1101010001 111010101 0111010001 1111011111 01001111101 01101010101 1111110101 1 01001010101 1101010001 1001010101 1101010101 11011100101 10010100101 1111010101 1001010111 1 1101100101 10001110111 1101011001 0111110101 1111000101 1100010101 1101000101 1100010101 1 1011111101 0011010101 1101100101 0100010101 1110011101 0101000101 1101110011 0100010001 1 10011010001 1111000101 1110010101 0101111111 0101010101 11010101001 1101011111 1111010101 1 11111101001 0101110101 1101110111 11011101001 01100010101 0111010101 1101110101 1111010101 1 1001110101 1100011101 11010100101 0100011101 0101000101 1001001001 1101110111 01010110101 1 1010111010101 1111101101 1011011101 0101110011 1011110101 1111111111 01110011001 1111010101 1 10111011101 1101111111 0101010101 0111110101 0101010111 0101001101 1111111111 11011101010 1 0101010101 1111010111 1111111101 11001011101 1101010001 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1 1101010101 10100100101 1101010101 1100111111 1101011111 11010100101 0111010101 1101010101 1 1101111111 1111110101 1101010101 0101011101 0101010101 0101110101 1110010001 1011011111 1 0101011101 1101010001 1001111111 0001110111 1101010101 0111110101 1011110001 1111010101 1 01110001001 1111010001 0011011100 1011110111 1101111101 1101010101 1100110101 0101001101 1 1111110101 1001010101 0101100101 1011010111 0101011111 10100111101 1101010001 1101110101 1 10001011111 0100010011 1111110101 1011010101 0101011001 0111100101 1110110111 1101010011 1 10011010011 0111010101 0101000101 1001110101 1001100101 1101110111 1001010001 111100110100 1 10010100111 0111010001 1101011101 1101011101 110100111 11010011101 1010010101 1111010111 1 1101011001 1101110101 1101010101 11100101001 1001110111 1011100101 0100111001 0101000101 1 1011011100 1011011101 1001010100 1101111101 1101010101 101000110101 01001100101 11001011001 1 11010011111 1001010101 1101001000101 101010101110 0110011001 1001110101 10001010101 1101010011 1 1101110101 11100011101 11001111101 0111111110 1111010101 11110101001 1111110101 1101010101 1 1011110111 1101000101 1101011101 0100010101 1101010101 0001010101 1111010101 0101010101 1 11111101001 0101011101 1100111101 11010100111 10111100101 0111010101 1011110101 1100011101 1 1001011111 01010011001 0101010101 1001111101 100101011001 1101000101 1101010111 1001010101 1 0111010101 10010011101 0101000111 01010100101 1001110101 0101010101 0111010101 1101011101 1 0111110101 10011101001 1101010101 0111010101 1101110101 11110010111 1011010101 1101100100 1 0111110101 1111010101 11100010101 1100010101 0100010101 1111001101 0101010101 1001010101 1 10011100101 1101110101 1101010101 0100111101 1001011101 1001010101 1111111101 0101011101 1 10111111101 1111110101 1101011100011 11110010101 1111111101 1011010101 1111111101 1111010101 1 1101010001 1001010101 1101011101 11000110111 10111100101 1111011101 01010101010 010010101010 1 10101110001 0001011011 1101010101 01011101101 0101110101 11110101001 10001010101 10010100101 1 10011010101 1110110101 1111010101 1101011101 1100111101 1111110101 1111110001 010101110100 1 0101110100 1100011101 1100111001 11000101001 10010101001 0101000111 1100010101 1101010101 1 1101010101 10101010101 11110100001 1101010001 1101011101 01001100101 10110100101 1101010101 1 01000011011 11011100001 1101010001 1001011101 1001010111 10111000101 1001010001 1111010101 1 1100011001 1101010001 1111110001 1111011101 0101000101 1101011011 11010100101 1111011101 1 01010101001 1101000111 1101110101 1001010111 1001011101 1101010101 1101110101 0111110001 1 1001011101 01010110101 1011010111 0111010001 10101100101 1011010011 11111101001 0111010111 1 1101100101 0101010111 1111010101 0111110101 0101011101 0111011101 11000101010 00011101010 1 1101011101 1111010101 01010100101 01010011101 110001010101 10101110001 1101110101 01001111110 1 1011000101 0101010111 1101010111 1011010101 1101010101 1100011101 01010101001 1101110101 1 1101110101 0101000100 11110100001 1010110011 1101010101 0101011100 1101010101 10010101001 1 0101010101 1111010100 1001010111 1101001101 1111010101 1100100111 11110101010 11010000110 1 1001111011 1001010101 11001100101 0101010101 1111011101 1011111111 11100010101 0011010111 1 10010010110 1101010111 0100010101 1001110101 0101110101 11101011001 10111001011 1111110101 1 10101011101 1111010101 01001101001 1111110101 1101010101 1101111101 1001110111 11011101100 1 0111010101 1011010111 0111000101 1101000111 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 1001110001 1 0011000101 01010010101 0101010101 1101010111 1001110101 0111010101 1101011011 0111010001 111 1101010101 1101110101 0101111111 0111010011 1101011101 1111010101 0101100101 1101011101 1 11011101001 0101101100 1111010101 11010010101 0101110100 1001010101 1101010111 1101011101 1 1101001101 1111110101 0111001101 1101011111 0101110101 1111000101 1001010101 1101010101 1 0101010101 11001011101 1001100101 1101011001 1101010101 1101011101 01110101001 1011000101 1 1001010101 11010101100 11010011111 1011010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 0110000101 1 1111111101 0101011111 1111110101 1101011101 1011010111 0111100101 1101011101 1101011111 1 1010111011111 1101011100 0111010101 1111011100 1111010111 1111011101 1001010101 01000101010 1 1111010001 0101000111 1101011101 0011010101 1101000101 11110011101 0111010101 1011010101 1 11001101011 1111111101 1101011110 01110110010 01011011101 1101010101 1110010101 1011000101 1 10001110111 1010010111 1100111101 11010101110 0111010101 11110100101 1111111111 1011010001 1 10010100111 0101011101 1101000111 1101010111 1101011111 1100100001 0101011101 0101010101 1 11011110111 0101110101 0111110111 0101010101 1101010101 0101011101 11011101001 1101010101 1 100010100101 10101111101 0110010111 1101010101 1110011101 1101010111 1101010111 110101011100 1 0110010101 0101110101 1101000101 1111010101 1001111101 1111111101 1101110101 0001110101 1 10011110000 0101001101 1011010101 1111011111 1010010100 1001010101 1101010101 0101010111 1 0011111101 1001010111 1001110001 1101010101 1101110101 1110010101 1101010101 0101011101 1 1111010101 1001011110 1101010101 1101010101 0111100101 1101110101 11010101010 11010111100 1 10011100101 110010100101 10101001101 01010100010 1111010110 11111111010 0101011101 0100011111 1 1011010101 11001100101 0111010101 1101011101 10111100111 0100111101 0101000101 1101000101 1 0001000101 10101011101 1111110111 01001101001 0101100101 1111110111 1111110111 01110011010 1 1101111001 1111010011 10011100100 1011000101 1110111101 1111110101 1101010101 1001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 83
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 740
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, from, his, her, to, in, as, each, or, she, he, that, with, of, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, the, nor, as, with, who are repeated.

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