Why this word is great
MELIC — [Adjective] Of or pertaining to Greek lyric poetry intended to be sung, particularly the personal, often monodic, verses of the seventh and sixth centuries BC. From Latin melicus, from Koine Greek μελικός (melikós), from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, "song, lyric"). Unlike “epic,” which chronicles the public deeds of heroes in sprawling hexameters, or “iambic,” which marches to a specific, sharp cadence for satire, melic denotes the intimate artifact forged for the breath and the lyre. It is the cultivated tremor of Sappho’s solitary yearning, the complex rhythm of a Pindaric choral dance, and the delicate, wine-stained curve of a symposium’s refrain—the ghost of performed feeling, a formal echo of a civilization trying to sing its soul into permanence.