Chant
rhythmic speaking or singing of rhymed text during an action to express emotion or thoughts
A chant (from French chanter, from Latin cantare, "to sing") is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones.
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- My Nanna, your chant is sweet; it is the chant of my heart.
- Ningal, in a A suscript (balbale) to Nanna (Nanna B), late 3rd millennium BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
