poetry
Noun
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Literature in metrical form (synset 107107220)
associated with:
- hush, still, stillness - (poetic) tranquil silence
- 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
- metrify - compose in poetic meter
- spondaise, spondaize - make spondaic
- 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
- stilly - (poetic) still or calm
- scrivened - copied in handwriting
- lyric - of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way)
- apace - (poetic, literary) quickly
- sweet, sweetly - in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')
subtypes:- epos - a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme
- epic poetry, heroic poetry - poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero
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Any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling (synset 107107939)
is a type of: 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
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