volta — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).

2. A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.

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   levaltovolte

3. A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.

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   […][Larmona] Ash describes how “conversion arrives like a volta [poetic shift]^([sic]) in a person's life.” The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum either, but open to revision.