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A chapter for poems too proud to call themselves chapters.
means A major section of a long narrative poem, like an epic broken into manageable installments.
from From Latin cantus, a song, via Italian canto — because epics were meant to be sung, not silently scanned.
Dante's countHis Divine Comedy runs exactly 100 cantos.
Pound's lifeHis Cantos sprawled across over five decades.
Sister wordSame root powers chant, cantor, and incantation.