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the Mr. Ekenhead in the second canto of Don Juan was a real-life lieutenant of the HMS Salsette marines who swam the Hellespont with Lord Byron on 3 May 1810?
Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake is in six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day?

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The canto is a principal form of division in a long poem, especially the epic. The word comes from Italian, from the Latin canto, meaning "I sing," and has a corollary (but not a cognate) in the Sanskrit kāṇḍa, or "chapter." Famous examples of epic poetry which employ the canto division are Valmiki's The Ramayana (500 cantos^[1]), Dante's The Divine Comedy (100 cantos^[2]), and Ezra Pound's The Cantos (120 cantos).

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^ Dutt 2004, p.198
^ "The Divine Comedy: A Study Guide". cummingsstudyguides.net (Michael J. Cummings). 2003. http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides2/DivineCom.html. Retrieved 2010-01-09.

References

Dutt, Romesh C. (2004). Ramayana. Kessinger Publishing. pp. 208. ISBN 9781419143878. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=RPKav7K9eNUC.

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