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. Jeff Kingston:

   The recent outbreak has been a stress-test for bilateral relations, so taking what is anxiety-inducing and turning it around was clever, that poem is trying to get people to listen to the better part of themselves.

2. Luke Rodehorst:

   If I ca n’t write a poem, I can at least get 17 syllables.

3. Archibald MacLeish:

   The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

4. Shanta Newlin:

   Our goal has been to publish and release the' The Hill We Climb : An Inaugural Poem for the Country' as soon as possible, we initially set a publication date of April 27th and today announced a new and improved date of March 16th.

5. Spike Milligan:

   I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.