cantos
Epic verse chapters
Cantos is the plural of canto, a major division of a long poem.
Dante's *Divine Comedy* is organized into cantos, as are epic poems like *Orlando Furioso* and Pound's modernist *Cantos*.
The word comes from Italian for "song," reflecting poetry's oral origins.
The first three cantos establish the poem's themes.
Italian epic poet
- InfernoLiterary journey through damnation
- ParadisoHeaven in verse
- IliadAncient Greek war epic
- AeneidRoman founding epic
Odyssey · Virgil · Beatrice · pilgrimage · allegory · journey · hero · saga
Poem's line grouping
- verseMetered poetic passage
- divisionSplitting into parts
- sectionDistinct divided part
- coupletTwo successive verse lines
quatrain · tercet · ottava rima · Spenserian · numbered · sequence · passage · book
Named for a pope
- plainchantUnaccompanied liturgical melody
- liturgicalOf public worship rites
- polyphonicHaving multiple melodic lines
- motetSacred polyphonic choral work
madrigal · oratorio · melody · vocal · choir · sacred · renaissance · medieval
Dante
Italian epic poet
Aeneid · Odyssey · Virgil · Beatrice · pilgrimage · allegory · journey · hero · saga · mythology
stanza
Poem's line grouping
couplet · quatrain · tercet · ottava rima · Spenserian · numbered · sequence · passage · book · part
Gregorian
Named for a pope
- plainchantUnaccompanied liturgical melody
- liturgicalOf public worship rites
- polyphonicHaving multiple melodic lines
motet · madrigal · oratorio · melody · vocal · choir · sacred · renaissance · medieval · harmony
duende
Passionate artistic soul-force
baile · Andalusian · guitarist
- literary formsnovel, novels, novella, poetry, poetry collections
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- versepoem, stanza, couplet, sonnet, rhyme
- Divine ComedyInferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice, Virgil
- DanteDivine Comedy, Inferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice
- Camoessonnets, lyric poetry, Vasco da Gama, Venus, Bacchus