| The book is divided into six cantos, describing the plan of the city, the monuments and the technological marvels of those days. |
| The poem itself, in 10 cantos, is a series of images of migration of the warrior hero along the Mongolian trade routes on horseback. |
| I used the form of multiple cantos because I wanted a fragmented structure that suggests the difficulties in capturing the complexity of Angola. |
| The Messiah had been conceived as a prose epic, on the model of Fenelon's Telemaque, and the earliest cantos were drafted in lyrical prose. |
| Of her thousands of unpublished writings, including a novel and cantos commemorating John Brown, some fifty remain. |
| Furthermore, Dante's work is divided into three canticles and each canticle is then divided into thirty-three cantos. |
