verse form

Noun
  1. 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:
    same as: poem

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