Synonyms for poem
ˈpoʊ əmpo·em

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1. poem

   Poetry is that form of literature that embodies beautiful thought, feeling, or action in melodious, rhythmical, and (usually) metrical language, in imaginative and artistic constructions. Poetry in a very wide sense may be anything that pleasingly addresses the imagination; as, the poetry of motion. In ordinary usage, poetry is both imaginative and metrical. There may be poetry without rime, but hardly without meter, or what in some languages takes its place, as the Hebrew parallelism; but poetry involves, besides the artistic form, the exercise of the fancy or imagination in a way always beautiful, often lofty or even sublime. Failing this, there may be verse, rime, and meter, but not poetry. There is much in literature that is beautiful and sublime in thought and artistic in construction, which is yet not poetry, because quite devoid of the element of song, whereby poetry differs from the most lofty, beautiful, or impassioned prose. Compare METER.

   Synonyms:
   meter, metrical composition, numbers, poesy, poetry, rime, song, verse

   Antonyms:
   prosaic speech, prosaic writing, prose

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1. poem, verse formnoun

   a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

   Synonyms:
   verse form

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1. • Literary Composition

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1. poemnoun

   Synonyms:
   metrical composition, piece of poetry

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1. poemnoun

   Synonyms:
   sonnet, ballad, verse, distich, lyric, elegy, eclogue, idyl, madrigal, epic, ode, georgic, cid, rondeau, epilogue, epigram, elegiac, roundelay, dithyramb, dithyrambic, doggerel, rhapsody

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1. List of paraphrases for "poem":

   poetry, song, rhyme

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1. POEM

   Synonyms:
   Patency, Outcomes and Economics of MIDCAB

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How to use poem in a sentence?

1. Robert Cecil Day Lewis:

   No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

2. Northrop Frye:

   Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

3. Dejan Stojanovic:

   Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

4. Ahmed Korayem:

   The object of the poet is not to accurately describe an emotion brought about from an experience, but rather, the poem is an acknowledgement that words have rendered themselves useless and the attempt to write is merely an acknowledgement of that moment

5. Rose Marie:

   There was a poem that my dad found, and it was all about donating your parts, you know,' give my eyes to a man who has never seen the sunrise' and the like. He kept showing us the poem. It was really important to them.