This is an analysis of the poem Orlando Furioso Canto 6 that begins with:

ARGUMENT
Ariodantes has, a worthy meed,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcXcbdd eafafafXe Xagagagcc Xhihihidd Xecbcecee eaiaXaicc ecXcgcgaa Xdcdcdccc XbcbXbcaa Xdadadacc jeeeXbecc edhdhdhcc XdededbcX Xacacacaa Xfcfcfcki Xfefefedd Xcacacacc XalalaXmm XccccXcjX XccccXcgg Xekekekll Xieieienn Xlililiff XXeaeaeoo Xmjmjmjaa XcaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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1011011101 1011010101 1111110101 1001011101 1 1000111101 01000100101 1001011101 0101011101 11010100101 1101101101 1011010101 1101010101 1 101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1001010111 1101010101 1101010101 1111110111 1111110101 1 1011010101 1101010101 10011101001 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 0101010101 1100110111 1 1101010101 0101010101 1101010011 0101010101 1111110011 1101001101 1111010101 1101010111 1 1001010101 1101111101 1001011101 0111110101 1111111101 1100010011 11011100001 0110010111 1 1101100101 01010101001 1111110101 1100100101 1101010011 11010010111 1011110101 1101010101 1 11111011111 1011110101 11010010001 0111010111 1101110101 1011110110 1111110101 1101110101 1 1101100101 1111101001 0101010101 1001010101 001001010101 1101010101 0100111101 1101110001 1 1111110100 1111010111 1011111111 1001010111 1111011001 0101001011 1111111101 0101110011 1 1001110001 0101010101 1110000101 1101010101 1111010111 1111011100 1101000101 1101010111 1 11110000100 11010011101 1111010100 1011011101 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1111011001 1101010101 1101110001 0111010001 1101110101 1 1111111101 00101011101 1001000101 1111110001 1101010101 1101101001 1001011111 0101010101 1 0100010101 1101010111 1111010110 1111110100 1101110111 0100010100 10010100101 11001010101 1 1010011101 0110010101 1111010101 1101010001 1101110101 1001100111 11011100101 1110010101 1 0101110101 1101010101 0110010101 1101110101 1111001100 1100010001 11011100100 1111010101 1 1111010111 0111110101 1101100111 0101010001 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 11000010101 111 1101100101 01110011101 110011111 1001011101 0101110101 1111110111 1011000101 1101110101 1 0101010101 0101011101 1101010111 1111011011 1111111000 110111011 1101010101 1011110101 1 0100011101 0101011101 1011010101 1101000101 1111110101 1111111001 1101110111 1100110101 1 1001011101 1011011111 1101010101 0110010111 1011010101 0101001001 0101010101 1101110101 1 1101111001 1101011001 1101110101 10110101001 0111110111 11110010101 1100011101 1111010111 1 1001010001 01111111110 01010100101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 81
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 728
  • 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; in, and, my, her, to, of, with, i, he, some, one, his, by are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, i, this, one, where, nor, these 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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