poem
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Poem \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.
[1913 Webster]
2. A composition, not in verse, of which the language is
highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the
poems of Ossian.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "poem":
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, 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, engrossment, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee,
epopoeia, epos, essay, eyeful, fair copy, fiction, final draft,
finished version, first draft, flimsy, georgic, ghazel, haiku,
holograph, idyll, 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, picture, piece, piece of writing, play, poesy, poetry,
printed matter, printout, production, prothalamium, reading matter,
recension, rhapsody, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay,
rune, satire, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft,
sestina, 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
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