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Noun: melic verse
  1. Verse that is intended to be sung, especially Greek lyric verse of the seventh to fifth century B.C.
    "We have seen that virtually all the melic verse of antiquity was addressed to someone, primarily because the forms of ancient rhetoric and music required it."

Type of: poem, verse form

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