| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | song |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | melody sung or played with musical instrument |
Synonyms: |
air, anthem, aria, ballad, canticle, carol, chant, chorale, chorus, ditty, expression, golden oldie, hymn, lay, lullaby, lyric, melody, number, oldie, opera, piece, poem, psalm, refrain, rock, rock and roll, round, shanty, strain, tune, verse, vocal |
| 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: | writing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | printed composition |
Synonyms: |
article, belles-lettres, 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 |
| Main Entry: | prosody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | versification |
Synonyms: |
metrics, poem, poetic rhythm, poetry |
| Main Entry: | couplet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pair |
Synonyms: |
distich, poem, unit, verse |
| Main Entry: | threnody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | song |
Synonyms: |
dirge, elegy, poem, requiem |
| Main Entry: | poetry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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