This is an analysis of the poem Orlando Furioso Canto 22 that begins with:

ARGUMENT
Atlantes' magic towers Astolpho wight...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabababcc deaeaXXff Xghghghii Xjajajadd XdXdXdkkk deeeeeell dXjdjdjhh Xkkkkkkkk Xkhkhkhkk Xadamadhh fkhkhkXee daaaaaakk Xkekekeff XhahahaXa Xfhfhfhaa XhjhjXXaa Xkakakajj Xndndndgg Xkjkjkjgg Xkekekell XXeaeXekk XkjkjkXee XhhhhhXjj XdkdkXkgg Xhdhdhdbb XkdkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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1111010111 1101010101 0011011111 1001010101 0100110100 10111100010 010010100010 1 1001110110 1001011111 0101010101 1111010101 1001010101 1101100101 1111110011 11011100100 1 0101010101 0110110101 1111110001 0101010101 1111010001 1011010001 1110111101 0101010101 1 1110011101 1010101111 1101110111 01010111111 1111110101 0101010101 1101110111 1111110101 1 11001110111 1001010101 1011111111 0100010101 1100111100 0111010101 1111010101 0101010001 1 1100110111 01110111001 1011011100 11011101100 1101011101 1110010111 1111110011 1100010101 1 1101010101 1111111111 1101011101 1101010101 1101010100 1101100101 1101100111 1111010111 1 1111011100 11001011101 01000100100 0100011101 11100010111 1100010111 1011111101 00100101010 1 1101110101 1001011011 10001010001 1101010110 1111011111 11010101001 0101111100 0101010101 1 1101011101 0101010011 1100010101 1100111101 11010010101 1111110101 1001010101 1011001100 1 1101000111 1100010101 110100101001 0111111101 11110011001 10010100101 1110011101 1101001101 1 1101010101 0110110001 11010111001 10010010101 1111010101 0111011101 1100111111 0110111111 1 1100100101 0111110101 10110100011 1101110101 0111010101 10001011101 1001011101 0100010101 1 1100111101 11011101110 0101110001 111101000010 1111010111 11010100110 1011111101 11010001001 1 1011010011 1001111111 11110100101 1100110001 0111010101 0111011101 11011100111 11010101001 1 1001100101 0101010101 11011101111 1111010100 0111110001 0101011101 0111000100 1101010101 1 1101010001 110101101 1101011001 1011110101 1101010101 0011010101 1001110101 0101011100 1 1101111101 0101010100 1001010101 1111111101 1110010101 11010010001 11110100111 11000101010 111 111010011111 1101011101 0001011101 0111111101 1111111100 0101111111 1011111101 1111110001 1 11110111010 1111111101 1111011101 1101110101 1001110101 10010100010 110100111010 01010010101 1 1001110101 1100001001 01000101001 101101101001 1111101001 1111011111 1101100110 1100110101 1 0101001101 1110011101 11111000101 1101001101 0101010111 0101110001 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1001110111 10000101010 1100100101 1 0101100101 0111010111 1100010101 1110011101 0111010101 1111010001 0101011101 1001111101 1 0101001111 1111011101 01010011101 11110010001 1001011111 1111110101 1001011011 1011110101 1 1100110101 1001010111 1101010101 1110011111 0001010101 1111011101 11111100101 1101110101 1 1111010101 0101111101 1101010001 11010111100 10101010011 1101011001 1001110101 0111011110 1 1001010101 1110011101 1110110101 11011000101 1101111101 0100011101 11011111001 1111000101 1 0011011100 1100100101 1100011101 100111001 110010100111 110100100101 0110010110 0011010110 1 1111010111 1101100001 1110010101 10110010101 11010010101 1001010111 1111010101 1100011101 1 1111110101 0101110011 1011000101 0101000101 0011011101 1101011100 1001011101 1111010001 1 1001010101 01000100101 1111111111 1001011111 1101111111 0111100111 1101010111 1001110101 1 0111011101 0101010101 1011011101 0111001011 1001110101 11011101001 0101010101 1100111101 1 1111010101 1101110101 11001010101 1100010001 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  • Amount of stanzas: 99
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 891
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; nor, i, and, his, he, by, to, some, her, of, in, that, we, ', on, with, as, had, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, and, to, no, the, had, as, so, gave are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.

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