canto
cantos
Long books have chapters. Long poems do, too. But a chapter in a long poem is called a canto.
There are several famous poems that are divided into cantos, including Dante's Divine Comedy, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Byron's Don Juan. Canto is an Italian word coming from Latin which means song or singing. From Italian it was borrowed in English to mean a section of a poem.
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a major division of a long poem
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type of:
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section, subdivision
a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
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section, subdivision
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the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music
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type of:
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voice part
a part written for a singer
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voice part
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