This is an analysis of the poem Orlando Furioso Canto 2 that begins with:

ARGUMENT
A hermit parts, by means of hollow sprite, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabababcc bdadadaee Xfgfgfgdd XadXdXdXX XhghgXgbX befeiefdd bjhjhjhkk Xaeaeaedd Xldldldhh Xmbmbmbdd hndndndoo bbbbbbbbm Xhmhmhmaa Xjfjfjfbm Xbfbfmfpp XajajajXa Xoqoqoqbb XfafafaeX Xegegegaa Xddddddpp Xfmfmfbgg Xdadadaee Xdbdbdbdd Xrdrdrdoo Xnfnfnfaa Xaea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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1101100101 1111011101 0101110001 1111110101 1 1011010101 1101000101 1101001101 1011001101 1111011101 0111011001 0101101111 11010101000 1 1101000101 11111111010 1101110101 11010011010 1101110101 01110100010 0100011101 1011010101 1 1011111111 1111110111 0101001101 1101011101 10010011101 0111110101 1100010101 1101110100 1 01011101011 1110001101 1110010111 1101010101 0101110100 1101010101 10010001001 0101110101 1 0101110101 1101010101 0101010101 1001010001 1101010111 101010010101 0011110110 1101111101 1 1010001110101 1011010101 1101010001 1110010101 0101111101 1101010101 0101010101 1101100101 1 10011011101 1001001101 1001010111 1101111101 1001011111 0101110011 1111010101 010101111100 1 1111110101 1101011111 1101110111 0111010001 0101000101 1011011101 1011010111 1001010101 1 1101011001 1101111111 0111010001 1101100101 0101000101 10100010101 1101011101 1101011101 1 1011110011 0101011100 1111010111 11010100100 11011101001 1101010111 1111010101 1111111101 1 1101000101 0001010101 1001010111 0101001101 1111110101 1001001101 1101111111 0101000101 1 10010011001 10001110101 1111010101 1111110101 1101010101 1110010101 1100010111 1011001101 1 10100101010 01110101001 10010101010 0101010001 01010101010 1101010101 11110100101 1011011111 1 1101010101 0110011111 1111000101 00110001101 1111010101 1101010101 0111011101 0011000101 1 1111010101 1111010101 0100110101 1111010111 1111010111 1100110101 1111000101 0101010101 1 1101010101 0101011101 11010001001 0101110101 1101000101 1101010111 11110110101 1101010101 1 0101010101 1100010001 0111011100 11011100001 1010000101 0101010101 0010010101 1011010111 1 1101010101 1001000101 1101011101 1101010101 0101110100 11011101001 1011110101 1101010101 1 0101000101 1101010101 1111010001 10110110101 101001011101 1010100110100 1111110101 1111011101 1 1011010101 11010101100 1011010101 01010101010 11110101001 11010100110 0101100111 0100110001 1 1101110111 10011001111 0101000101 0100101101 1101110111 0101111101 01010111001 1000100101 1 0100110001 1101010100 1001010101 0101010100 1111011101 0111010101 11010111010 11000101010 1 0111110101 1101011101 11011100100 0101000101 1101010100 0101001101 10011111010 11110101010 1 1001010101 11011000101 1111010101 0101110101 1011010101 0101000101 1101010101 0101001101 1 0100110101 1110010101 11011101001 1001010101 0101010101 1001011101 1011111111 1101010001 1 11010101001 0101010001 0101010101 01110010001 1100010101 11010111001 1111010111 011101101 1 101010111011 10101011101 1111111001 010001001 1011000101 11010111011 11110110101 010101101 1 1101010111 1101010101 1111101111 1101010101 1001111101 1101110001 1101110101 0111010101 1 11001111101 10001010111 0101011001 1101010101 1101010101 10001110111 0111001101 1111110111 1 10111100101 1101110111 1101010001 0101110101 1101111101 1001010111 0100010101 1111111101 1 10111010101 1101110111 1101001111 1111000101 1101110111 11001011101 1001010101 0011010101 1 10101111111 0101011011 1100011101 0101110111 1101101111 1101111100 11010100101 11000111001 1 10101010101 10010100111 01010010111 1101000101 1001111101 0101010101 11010010101 0101111111 1 10011011101 0101111001 1011110111 10010100101 1111110111 1101010101 11010001010 01010111110 1 10111011101 1101110101 11010101010 01010110101 1101110011 0110010100 0101010101 1001011001 1 11011100010 1101111101 1111110001 1011000101 11000101001 1011010111 1111110101 1111001110 1 101111100111 1001011101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1111011101 0101010101 0101011111 1 100001010101 01110010101 1100111001 1110010101 0101000101 1011110101 11100010101 010001011 1 100110111001 011010101 1111010101 1011010001 1101011101 0100011110 1101000101 0101011101 1 10011110101 1101110001 1101110001 1101011101 1101010101 0101110011 1110010101 1111011101 1 1101100101 1101010101 0001010111 1001011101 11010101001 1101010101 010010100111 0101110101 1 10001010101 0101110001 1101100101 0110011101 01010101001 11110100101 1101010111 1001110101 1 10110011001 1101011101 1101010101 1011011101 1011010101 0101110111 10010110001 11111111110 1 100011111101 01110011101 1101010101 0101100111 1110111111 0100011101 0101011111 1101110101 1 10100010101 10010100101 1101010001 1111010101 1011010001 1011010101 1111010101 0101000101 1 10100101001 1111011111 11010011101 11010111001 1110010101 1101110111 1011110111 1101011101 1 10101010101 11010000101 1111000101 1011110101 1110010101 1101010111 1111110110 100111010100 1 0101000101 1001010111 0111000100 0101000101 1101111101 01000101001 1101010101 1001010001 1 0111010101 1101010001 1111001001 010010101100 1101010001 1100010101 1111110101 1111011101 1 1101111111 10011000111 0111010101 1111000101 1110011100 1101001101 1111111111 010010111110 111 01011010101 1111010101 1111010111 11001011101 1111111111 0101011001 10001111001 110101011000 1 1101001001 1101010101 1001100101 1001100101 11010001001 1001011111 0101111001 1101111101 1 01001110101 10101001001 1111010010 1100010001 11100010101 0011010101 1111010001 1011011101 1 01010101001 1111110101 00110110101 1111000100 1101010101 0100110101 11010100111 10010010101 1 1011110101 0101011101 1011011101 1101111101 111101010010 11100000101 11010000101 1001010101 1 1001011110 1101010001 11010010101 0100111101 1011110101 1011011101 1101000101 0101010100 1 1110011101 1111010101 1101010101 1101011110 1111000101 0011010101 1101010111 1001110101 1 1101010101 11101101001 1101110001 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 0100100101 1001110101 1 1111010101 1001001001 10011110111 11010100101 1101011101 01001000101 1101111001 11000101110 1 1111010101 0111000101 0101111111 0110010101 1101010101 0111000111 0101010111 1111010101 1 0111010101 1001001101 01011111001 1001100001 1100010101 01011100101 1101010111 1011111001 1 1001010101 1101010101 0111110001 0101110001 11010010101 1101110001 1110010111 0101001001 1 1101010111 0101001101 1101010101 1111100100 1111010101 0111010110 1101010101 1001110101 1 0101001111 1101010111 0101010011 1101010101 1101101111 1100111001 1001011101 1011110001 1 01011001010 1100111101 00111101010 1100110101 01000101010 1101010001 1010010101011 0111001110 1 1111000100 11011100100 1101010001 01111101100 1101110101 01001110101 1101010101 1010010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 77
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 694
  • 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, now, his, that, in, him, to, of, more, i, her, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, twice, where, the are repeated.

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