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| Main Entry: | poem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece |
| Synonyms: | ballad, beat, composition, creation, epic, free verse, lyric, ode, poetry, rhyme, rime, song, verse, words, writing, blank verse, haiku, limerick, lines, poesy, quatrain, rune, sestina, sonnet, villanelle |
| Antonyms: | prose |
| Main Entry: | rhyme |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poetry in which lines end with like sounds |
| Synonyms: | beat, cadence, couplet, harmony, iambic pentameter, measure, meter, ode, poem, poetry, rhythm, song, tune, verse, alliteration, doggerel, half-rhyme, nursery rhyme, poesy, rune, slant rhyme, vowel-chime |
| Main Entry: | song |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | melody sung or played with musical instrument |
| Synonyms: | air, anthem, aria, ballad, carol, chant, chorus, ditty, expression, golden oldie, hymn, lay, lullaby, lyric, melody, number, piece, poem, psalm, refrain, rock, round, shanty, strain, tune, verse, vocal, canticle, chorale, oldie, opera, rock and roll |
| Main Entry: | verse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written composition |
| Synonyms: | ballad, epic, jingle, lay, lyric, ode, poem, poetry, rhyme, song, stanza, poesy, rune, sonnet |
| 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: | prosody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | versification |
| Synonyms: | poem, poetry, metrics, poetic rhythm |
| Main Entry: | writing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | printed composition |
| Synonyms: | article, book, discourse, dissertation, document, editorial, essay, letter, literature, manuscript, novel, ode, opus, pamphlet, paper, piece, play, poem, prose, publication, record, review, signature, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, work, belles-lettres |
| Main Entry: | poetry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expressive, rhythmic literary work |
| Synonyms: | paean, rhyme, rime, song, stanza, verse, balladry, doggerel, metrical composition, poems, poesy, rhyming, rune, versification |
| Antonyms: | prose |
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