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Poem
| Poem Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Poem?
[n] a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
Synonyms | Synonyms for Poem: verse form
Related Terms | Find terms related to Poem: alba |
anacreontic |
article |
autograph |
balada |
ballad |
ballade |
brainchild |
bucolic |
canso |
chanson |
clerihew |
composition |
computer printout |
copy |
dirge |
dithyramb |
ditty |
document |
draft |
eclogue |
edited version |
elegy |
English sonnet |
engrossment |
epic |
epigram |
epithalamium |
epode |
epopee |
epopoeia |
epos |
essay |
eyeful |
fair copy |
fiction |
final draft |
finished version |
first draft |
flimsy |
georgic |
ghazel |
haiku |
holograph |
Horatian ode |
idyll |
Italian sonnet |
jingle |
letter |
limerick |
literae scriptae |
literary artefact |
literary production |
literature |
lucubration |
lyric |
madrigal |
manuscript |
matter |
monody |
narrative poem |
nonfiction |
nursery rhyme |
ode |
opus |
original |
palinode |
paper |
parchment |
pastoral |
pastoral elegy |
pastorela |
pastourelle |
penscript |
Petrarchan sonnet |
picture |
piece |
piece of writing |
Pindaric ode |
play |
poesy |
poetry |
printed matter |
printout |
production |
prothalamium |
reading matter |
recension |
rhapsody |
rhyme |
rondeau |
rondel |
roundel |
roundelay |
rune |
Sapphic ode |
satire |
screed |
scrip |
script |
scrive |
scroll |
second draft |
sestina |
Shakespearean sonnet |
sloka |
song |
sonnet |
sonnet sequence |
tanka |
tenso |
tenzone |
the written word |
thing of beauty |
threnody |
transcript |
transcription |
triolet |
troubadour poem |
typescript |
verse |
verselet |
versicle |
version |
villanelle |
virelay |
vision |
work |
writing
See Also | abecedarius |
Alcaic |
Alcaic verse |
ballad |
ballade |
blank verse |
canto |
elegy |
epic |
epic poem |
epos |
free verse |
haiku |
lament |
lay |
line of poetry |
line of verse |
literary composition |
literary work |
lyric |
lyric poem |
poetic rhythm |
prosody |
rhyme |
rhythmic pattern |
rime |
rondeau |
rondel |
sonnet |
stanza |
tanka |
terza rima |
vers libre |
verse |
verse line |
versicle
Poem In Webster's Dictionary
\Po"em\, n. [L. po["e]ma, Gr. ?, fr. ? to make, to compose,
to write, especially in verse: cf. F. po["e]me.]
1. A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in
certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and
characterized by imagination and poetic diction; --
contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or
of Milton.
2. A composition, not in verse, of which the language is
highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the
poems of Ossian.
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