Complex sentence: The poem consists of ten cantos, with a variable number of stanzas (1102 in total), written in the decasyllabic "ottava rima", which has the rhyme scheme ABABABCC, in a total of 8816 lines of verse.
Split into simpler sentences: The poem consists of ten cantos, each with a different number of stanzas (1102 in total). It is written in the decasyllabic "ottava rima", which has the rhyme scheme ABABABCC, and contains a total of 8816 lines of verse.