ode | | |
n. (communication) | 1. ode | a lyric poem with complex stanza forms. |
| ~ lyric poem, lyric | a short poem of songlike quality. |
| ~ epithalamium | an ode honoring a bride and bridegroom. |
| ~ horatian ode, sapphic ode | an ode with several stanzas. |
| ~ pindaric, pindaric ode | an ode form used by Pindar; has triple groups of triple units. |
| ~ choral ode | ode sung by the chorus in classical Greek drama. |
poem | | |
n. (communication) | 1. poem, verse form | a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines. |
| ~ line of poetry, line of verse | a single line of words in a poem. |
| ~ literary composition, literary work | imaginative or creative writing. |
| ~ abecedarius | a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order. |
| ~ alcaic, alcaic verse | verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus. |
| ~ ballad, lay | a narrative poem of popular origin. |
| ~ ballade | a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy. |
| ~ blank verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter). |
| ~ elegy, lament | a mournful poem; a lament for the dead. |
| ~ epic, epic poem, heroic poem, epos | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds. |
| ~ free verse, vers libre | unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern. |
| ~ haiku | an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines. |
| ~ lyric poem, lyric | a short poem of songlike quality. |
| ~ rondel, rondeau | a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas. |
| ~ sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme. |
| ~ tanka | a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables. |
| ~ terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.. |
| ~ rhyme, verse | a piece of poetry. |
| ~ canto | a major division of a long poem. |
| ~ verse line, verse | a line of metrical text. |
| ~ versicle | a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation. |
| ~ stanza | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem. |
| ~ poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody | (prosody) a system of versification. |
| ~ rhyme, rime | correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds). |
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