| poetic | | |
| adj. (pertain) | 1. poetic, poetical | of or relating to poetry.; "poetic works"; "a poetic romance" |
| adj. | 2. poetic | characterized by romantic imagery.; "Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic" |
| ~ figurative, nonliteral | (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech.; "figurative language" |
| adj. (pertain) | 3. poetic | of or relating to poets.; "poetic insight" |
| adj. | 4. poetic, poetical | characteristic of or befitting poetry.; "poetic diction" |
| ~ rhetorical | given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought.; "mere rhetorical frippery" |
| poetical | | |
| 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). |
Recent comments
2 weeks 5 days ago
6 weeks 6 days ago
8 weeks 2 days ago
23 weeks 4 days ago
23 weeks 4 days ago
23 weeks 4 days ago
24 weeks 2 days ago
28 weeks 3 days ago
29 weeks 2 days ago
30 weeks 1 day ago