"metasong" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992, Robert Lecker, Jack David, Ellen Quigley, editors, Canadian Writers and Their Work: Poetry series, volume 8, ECW Press, page 83:",
          "text": "The poem as lyric becomes a type of metasong. It is a song about universal rhythm.",
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          "ref": "1995, Elaine Scarry, Fins-de-siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 118:",
          "text": "Parsons takes the gift and sings Melissa a responsive song, wherein her “unmov’d” song turns through its “unmov’d” hearer to a kind of metasong about the freedom that art offers.",
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          "ref": "2011, Duncan Robertson, Lectio Divina: The Medieval Experience of Reading, Liturgical Press, page 183:",
          "text": "The Song of Songs is a metasong, so to speak, sung on a level of abstraction higher or deeper than the others.",
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        "A song about a song."
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