This is an analysis of the poem Orlando Furioso Canto 21 that begins with:

ARGUMENT
Zerbino for Gabrina, who a heart...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXababcc daeaeaeee XfefXfegg Xdfhfhfee Xeieieiff diaiXiaee dibibibeX XXaeaeabX XXjhjdjee Xeeeeeekk cieieiXiX deeeeeedh XbababaaX Xfefefeee XeaeaeaXl Xkkkkkkaa Xbkbkbkjj Xfififiee Xeeeeeeaa XfjfXfjaa Xecececee Xdededebb XedeXeXkk XXicicill XabaXabdd Xmcmc
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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1111010101 1011011001 11110100101 1001011111 1100010101 1 1111010101 1001011101 01011111001 0111011110 1111011111 1100010001 0111111001 1110110101 1 1101110101 0010010111 10010101111 0101010111 1011000101 10111100101 1101110101 0101010111 1 1111010111 010010111101 0101100111 1101011101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010001 0001001100 1 1101110101 1111010101 11001011101 0011010101 10110011011 1101010011 1101110101 1101001111 1 1111111111 0110010101 1111010101 1100010101 1101110101 1101110101 1011010101 0101011101 1 11101110101 10101010101 0100010101 1011010101 1110010101 1111010101 10010110101 1101010101 1 11001010011 1010100101 1111010010 1011001101 01110101010 1001000101 1111011101 1111001101 1 11011110111 1111010101 1101010100 111010101 1101110100 1101111111 11010001011 1111000111 1 10111010001 1111110101 1101000111 0111011001 1011010101 1101110111 1111010110 110111010001 1 11111110011 0101111101 1011011111 1001110101 1011110110 1101010101 11011100111 1101011101 1 11101010001 1101110101 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0111011101 0001001101 1101110101 0111100101 0111010101 1001010101 0101010100 1 1101010001 1101011101 01010011001 0001001101 11101011001 00010110101 1101011001 1001100101 1 1101000101 0100011101 1001000011 0100100101 1101011111 0001010101 0111111101 11010001001 1 10011011101 1010111101 1001010001 0101011001 1101011001 1101010101 1101010111 1101100101 1 1001011101 0101101101 01010011101 0010011101 10111011101 111011101 1101010101 0101010101 1 1001011110 1101011101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010001 0001010001 1110110101 0001010101 1 1100111101 0101000101 0101010101 01010101110 1101011001 1101011101 0100010001 1001100101 111 101010101010 0100110111 01011110010 0101011111 110100110010 01011100001 1101110101 0101011101 1 1101011101 0101010110 1101010001 1111110101 1111010101 1001011001 1011010111 1001000101 1 1011010101 1001010101 0101110111 10001010001 1111010101 0001010101 1111010001 1011110101 1 1111011101 1101010111 0101000101 1111000101 1001011101 0101010101 0101010101 10010100101 1 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  • Amount of stanzas: 73
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 657
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, in, of, her, he, you, what, thy, no, she, to, i, him, his, that, had are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, was, to, who, he, the are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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