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poem

Noun

is a type of: literary composition, literary work - imaginative or creative writing
subtypes:
- abecedarius - a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order
- alcaic, alcaic verse - verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus
- ballad, lay - a narrative poem of popular origin
- ballade - a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy
- blank verse - unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
- elegy, lament - a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
- epic, epic poem, epos, heroic poem - a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
- free verse, vers libre - unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
- haiku - an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
- lyric, lyric poem - a short poem of songlike quality
- rondeau, rondel - a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
- sonnet - a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
- tanka - a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables
- terza rima - a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.
- rhyme, verse - a piece of poetry
- versicle - a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation
has:
- line of poetry, line of verse - a single line of words in a poem
- canto - a major division of a long poem
- verse, verse line - a line of metrical text
- stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
- poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern - (prosody) a system of versification
- rhyme, rime - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
same as: verse form

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