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poem
A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.
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  1. A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.
  2. A composition in verse rather than in prose:
  3. An arrangement of words written or spoken: traditionally a rhythmical composition, sometimes rhymed, expressing experiences, ideas, or emotions in a style more concentrated, imaginative, and powerful than that of ordinary speech or prose: some poems are in meter, some in free verse
stanza
(Computing) A structural element in XML
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  1. (Computing) A structural element in XML
  2. A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
  3. A group of lines of verse forming one of the divisions of a poem or song: it is usually made up of four or more lines and often has a regular pattern in the number of lines and the arrangement of meter and rhyme
paean
An ancient Greek hymn of thanksgiving or invocation, especially to Apollo.
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  1. An ancient Greek hymn of thanksgiving or invocation, especially to Apollo.
  2. A fervent expression of joy or praise:
  3. A song of joyful praise or exultation.
song
A piece of music sung or composed for singing
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  1. A piece of music sung or composed for singing
  2. A lyric poem or ballad.
  3. The act or art of singing:
versification
(Poetry) The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.
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  1. (Poetry) The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.
  2. A metrical version, as of a story or prose work
  3. The form or style of a poem; metrical structure
rime
Rhyme
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  1. Rhyme
  2. A white incrustation of ice formed when supercooled water droplets freeze almost instantly on contact with a solid surface.
  3. A coating, as of mud or slime, likened to a frosty film:
rhyme
A word that corresponds with another in sound, esp. end sound
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  1. A word that corresponds with another in sound, esp. end sound
  2. Correspondence of sound between stressed syllables at the ends of words or lines of verse; specif., perfect rhyme
  3. Poetry or verse of this kind.
poesy
The art or practice of composing poems.
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  1. The art or practice of composing poems.
  2. (Old-fashioned) poetry
  3. (Obs.) A poem
poem
An arrangement of words written or spoken: traditionally a rhythmical composition, sometimes rhymed, expressing experiences, ideas, or emotions in a style more concentrated, imaginative, and powerful than that of ordinary speech or prose: some poems are in meter, some in free verse
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  1. An arrangement of words written or spoken: traditionally a rhythmical composition, sometimes rhymed, expressing experiences, ideas, or emotions in a style more concentrated, imaginative, and powerful than that of ordinary speech or prose: some poems are in meter, some in free verse
  2. A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.
  3. A composition in verse rather than in prose:
poesy
The art or practice of composing poems.
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  1. The art or practice of composing poems.
  2. (Old-fashioned) poetry
  3. (Obs.) A poem
rhyme
Such verse or poetry in general
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  1. Such verse or poetry in general
  2. A piece of verse, or poem, in which there is a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds, esp. at the ends of lines
  3. Poetry or verse of this kind.
verse
A single metrical composition; poem
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  1. A single metrical composition; poem
  2. A group of poems:
  3. A poem.
lyricism
Suitability to be sung or used as lyrics.
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  1. Suitability to be sung or used as lyrics.
  2. Emotional and poetic expression of enthusiasm, etc.
  3. Lyric quality, style, or character
poem
An arrangement of words written or spoken: traditionally a rhythmical composition, sometimes rhymed, expressing experiences, ideas, or emotions in a style more concentrated, imaginative, and powerful than that of ordinary speech or prose: some poems are in meter, some in free verse
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  1. An arrangement of words written or spoken: traditionally a rhythmical composition, sometimes rhymed, expressing experiences, ideas, or emotions in a style more concentrated, imaginative, and powerful than that of ordinary speech or prose: some poems are in meter, some in free verse
  2. A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.
  3. A composition in verse rather than in prose:
Find another word for poetry. In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for poetry, like: poem, stanza, style, paean, song, versification, metrical composition, rime, rhyme, poesy and rhythmical composition.

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  • Human philosophy, theoretical physics, poetry, Italian Masters, romance.

  • He loved poetry and soon began to write poems of his own.

  • Next to poetry I love history.

  • He enjoyed music and the theatre, art and poetry, the masterpieces of the ancients and the wonderful creations of his contemporaries, the spiritual and the witty - life in every form.

  • His poetry is entirely Sufic, and he was esteemed the greatest mystic poet of the Arabs.

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