POEMS [poh-uhm]
Main Entry:
poem [poh-uhm]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece
Synonyms: ballad, beat, blank verse, composition, creation, epic, free verse, haiku, limerick, lines, lyric, ode, poesy, poetry, quatrain, rhyme, rime, rune, sestina, song, sonnet, verse, villanelle, words, writing
Antonyms: prose
Main Entry: rhyme
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: poetry in which lines end with like sounds
Synonyms: alliteration, beat, cadence, couplet, doggerel, half-rhyme, harmony, iambic pentameter, measure, meter, nursery rhyme, ode, poem, poesy, poetry, rhythm, rune, slant rhyme, song, tune, verse, vowel-chime
Main Entry: song
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: melody sung or played with musical instrument
Synonyms: air, anthem, aria, ballad, canticle, carol, chant, chorale, chorus, ditty, expression, golden oldie, hymn, lay, lullaby, lyric, melody, number, oldie, opera, piece, poem, psalm, refrain, rock, rock and roll, round, shanty, strain, tune, verse, vocal
Main Entry: verse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: written composition
Synonyms: ballad, epic, jingle, lay, lyric, ode, poem, poesy, poetry, rhyme, rune, song, sonnet, stanza
Notes: technically, a stanza is a succession of lines that form a poem or song, and a verse is either a single line of writing or a series of lines in a song
Main Entry: writing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: printed composition
Synonyms: article, belles-lettres, book, discourse, dissertation, document, editorial, essay, letter, literature, manuscript, novel, ode, opus, pamphlet, paper, piece, play, poem, prose, publication, record, review, signature, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, work
Main Entry: prosody
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: versification
Synonyms: metrics, poem, poetic rhythm, poetry
Main Entry: couplet
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pair
Synonyms: distich, poem, unit, verse
Main Entry: threnody
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: song
Synonyms: dirge, elegy, poem, requiem
Related Words
Main Entry: poetry
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
Pierian, acatalectic, acromonogrammatic, alcaic, anapestic, catalectic, dithyrambic, elegiac, epic, iambic, idyllic, ionic, lyric, lyrical, melic, metrical, pindaric, poetic, poetical, sapphic, sdrucciola, tragicomipastoral, trochaic, tuneful
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