This is an analysis of the poem Orlando Furioso Canto 8 that begins with:

ARGUMENT
Rogero flies; Astolpho with the rest,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabababcc defefefaa Xedegedbb XhhhhhXaa XbdbdbdXi dahahahjX dkakakall Xemememdd Xbhbhbhhh Xedededmm mhcXchcnb dbdbdbdoo Xhmhmhmii XdededehX XbinibXmm Xlflflfff Xbhbhbhpp Xfbfbfbmm XhahXhall XfdfdfdXX Xamamamdd Xbdbgbdaa Xihihihbb XdadadXhh XbababahX Xfifi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,2,8,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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1101010101 1101010001 1001011101 1001010101 1 1110011101 0101011101 0101010111 0101110101 1101010010 0101011101 10010101001 0101010101 1 1101011101 1111100101 0100111101 1100110101 0101000101 11001010101 11000100111 100110101 1 1001011101 10111100101 11000100101 1101010101 1100010101 11110101001 1101010101 1111000101 1 1101000111 1001110101 0101011101 1101010101 0101011100 01100010101 01011101010 01110111010 1 1001010101 0111011101 1101010001 0111111101 0101110001 1001010101 0111110101 1101010101 1 1011011010 1100010101 0111010101 1101110101 1101100100 1101010101 010110111 0101000101 1 1111000100 1101010101 0101010100 01011001001 0101111001 1101010100 0111011111 1111011001 1 1011011111 11110110001 1111110111 1111010110 1101011001 1111001101 0101010101 0111011100 1 1110110101 0111010010 1101111101 1101010101 1101110101 1011100111 11011100001 11000100101 1 1100010101 1101000101 1100110111 1111011110 11010110111 11111100101 101101001 0111010101 1 1001011100 01110110011 10100100111 1111010101 11001011101 1111111111 01110011111 1101111101 1 1111000101 110111010 1011110101 1111110111 1001001100 11111111110 1011010101 1110010101 1 0010010101 0111010101 0100010101 0101010101 1011111101 1111101101 1101010101 11010011111 1 11110001101 0101110111 0101010101 1101010111 100010101011 1111010111 1111110101 0100010101 1 0100110101 11010010101 1101010101 0101010101 1010011101 11000101110 0111011101 1101011101 1 0101010111 11010100101 1111011101 00110011101 1001010101 0101010101 0100100101 0101010001 1 101100011 1 111100011 1011010111 1101010101 1001110101 1011010101 0101010111 0101010101 1 01100100111 0101110101 0011010101 11001110101 1000011101 0101010101 01001110101 1101110101 1 1101110110 1101010101 1101011101 1101110001 1101110101 1101010101 11010111010 0101110101 1 01101001001 10101111111 1001011101 0111011100 1111010110 0101010100 1101000101 1101111111 1 1100011101 1100110101 0101010011 1011110001 0111000101 0101111001 1111011101 1111010100 1 11001100101 010101101 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1101010001 1111010101 1101011111 1111010101 1111010100 0101010101 0011110111 1111110101 1 01010101001 1111010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101001101 1101100101 1101011111 0101010101 1 1001000101 1101010101 1001011101 11010101001 11110100111 0101010101 11010000101 1101111111 1 0111010101 0110010101 0101010011 1011000101 1111110001 01010110101 1111010101 01010011101 1 001101101 0101010111 0101000101 1101011101 1101010101 0111101101 10010101110 11010101010 1 1111000101 1001010101 1111010101 1111110101 1101110101 110101001001 0101010101 0101111111 1 01001010101 1101110001 11010101101 1100011111 1000110010 1101110001 11011101110 110101011110 1 0001011111 1101010101 1111111000 1111110111 1111111101 1011101101 01101101101 1001110001 1 1111011101 1101101101 0011101100 1111010101 1111110101 1110111101 01011011101 1101011011 1 1111010101 1001011101 1111001101 1111000101 1011111101 1111100111 1101011111 1111101111 1 1011111011 1101110011 1111110111 10010100101 1101010111 1001010001 1011010101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 92
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 820
  • 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; with, which, him, from, and, her, to, of, in, by, his, he, she, i, they, their, now, had, my, have are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, nor, the, and, her, i, now are repeated.

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