noun. One of the principal divisions of a long poem.

noun. A part or division of a poem of some length: as, the six cantos of “The Lady of the Lake.”

noun. In music; the highest voice-part in concerted music; soprano.

noun. One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.

noun. The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano.

noun. the plain ecclesiastical chant in cathedral service; the plain song.

noun. One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.

noun. a major division of a long poem

noun. the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music

"It follows the ecotopian revision of Isaiah 11 in canto viii, where babies sport with basilisks and lions lie mutated into lambs, and 'no longer now/He slays the lamb that looks him in the face/And horribly devours his mangled flesh' (211)."

section  subdivision  voice part  

Esperanto  Taranto  

Uno  adspectu  amatur  amoroso  consejo  

Spenserian stanza  accompaniment  air  alto  antistrophe