| poetry | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. poesy, poetry, verse | literature in metrical form. |
| ~ hush, stillness, still | (poetic) tranquil silence.; "the still of the night" |
| ~ epos | a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme. |
| ~ literary genre, writing style, genre | a style of expressing yourself in writing. |
| ~ epic poetry, heroic poetry | poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero. |
| ~ dolor, dolour | (poetry) painful grief. |
| ~ erin | an early name of Ireland that is now used in poetry. |
| ~ lyric | write lyrics for (a song). |
| ~ relyric | write new lyrics for (a song). |
| ~ rhyme, rime | compose rhymes. |
| ~ tag | supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes. |
| ~ alliterate | use alliteration as a form of poetry. |
| ~ poetise, poetize, verse, versify | compose verses or put into verse.; "He versified the ancient saga" |
| ~ metrify | compose in poetic meter.; "The bard metrified his poems very precisely" |
| ~ spondaise, spondaize | make spondaic.; "spondaize verses" |
| ~ elegise, elegize | compose an elegy. |
| ~ sonnet | compose a sonnet. |
| ~ sonnet | praise in a sonnet. |
| ~ scan | conform to a metrical pattern. |
| ~ darkling | (poetic) occurring in the dark or night.; "a darkling journey" |
| ~ stilly | (poetic) still or calm.; "in the stilly night" |
| ~ scrivened | copied in handwriting. |
| ~ lyric | of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way).; "lyric poetry" |
| ~ sweet, sweetly | in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly').; "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"; "talking sweet to each other" |
| n. (communication) | 2. poetry | any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling. |
| ~ expressive style, style | a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period.; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper" |
| 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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