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==Form and use== The use of the canto was described in the 1911 edition of the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' as "a convenient division when poetry was more usually sung by the [[minstrel]] to his own accompaniment than read".<ref name=EB1911 /> There is no specific format, construction or style for a canto and it is not limited to any one type of poetry. The typical length of a canto varies greatly from one poem to another. The average canto in the ''Divine Comedy'' is 142 lines long, while the average canto in ''Os Lusíadas'' is 882 lines long.
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