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How many syllables in Canto?

canto has 2 syllables

can-to

a principal division of a long poem

The first syllable 'can' has a vowel 'a' and a consonant 'c' and the second syllable 'to' has a vowel 'o' and two consonants 't' and 'n'.

Noun

The epic poem was divided into twelve cantos.

'In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost. It is a hard thing to speak of, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood was, so that thinking of it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death: but, in order to tell of the good that I found there, I must tell of the other things I saw there.' - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Canto I.
'The canto is the basic unit of long narrative poetry.' - Harold Bloom
'I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade...' - Alan Seeger, Rendezvous with Death, Canto I