| 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: | composition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written or musical creation |
Synonyms: |
arrangement, article, cantata, chart, concerto, dissertation, drama, essay, exercise, exposition, fiction, getup, literary work, manuscript, melody, music, novel, number, opus, paper, piece, play, poetry, rhapsody, romance, score, setup, short story, song, stanza, study, symphony, theme, thesis, tune, verse, work, writing |
| Main Entry: | lyrics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | words of a song |
Synonyms: |
book, libretto, lines, text, theme, verse, words |
| Main Entry: | measure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beat, rhythm |
Synonyms: |
accent, cadence, cadency, division, melody, meter, rhyme, step, stress, stroke, swing, tempo, throb, time, tune, verse, vibration |
| Main Entry: | ode |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poem |
Synonyms: |
ballad, composition, epode, limerick, lyric, poesy, rhyme, song, sonnet, verse |
| Main Entry: | passage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excerpt from document |
Synonyms: |
clause, extract, paragraph, piece, portion, quotation, reading, section, sentence, text, transition, verse |
| Notes: | a passage is a one-way boat crossing; a voyage is a round trip journey by sea |
Antonyms: |
whole |
| Main Entry: | poem |
| 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: | poetry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expressive, rhythmic literary work |
Synonyms: |
balladry, doggerel, metrical composition, paean, poems, poesy, rhyme, rhyming, rime, rune, song, stanza, verse, versification |
Antonyms: |
prose |
| Main Entry: | psalm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | song of praise |
Synonyms: |
canticle, celebration, chant, chorale, eulogy, hymn, paean, shout, verse |
| 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 |