poem

po·em  (pm)

n.

1. A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.

2. A composition in verse rather than in prose.

3. A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.

4. A creation, object, or experience having beauty suggestive of poetry.

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[French poème, from Old French, from Latin poma, from Greek poima, from poiein, to create; see k^wei-² in Indo-European roots.]

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poem

Noun

1. a literary work, often in verse, usually dealing with emotional or descriptive themes in a rhythmic form

2. a literary work that is not in verse but deals with emotional or descriptive themes in a rhythmic form: a prose poem

3. anything like a poem in beauty or effect: his painting is a poem on creation [Greek poiēma something created]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

poem - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines verse form line of poetry, line of verse - a single line of words in a poem literary composition, literary work - imaginative or creative writing abecedarius - a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order Alcaic, Alcaic verse - verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus ballad, lay - a narrative poem of popular origin ballade - a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy blank verse - unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) elegy, lament - a mournful poem; a lament for the dead epic, epic poem, heroic poem, epos - a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds free verse, vers libre - unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern haiku - an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines lyric poem, lyric - a short poem of songlike quality rondel, rondeau - a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas sonnet - a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme tanka - a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables terza rima - a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. rhyme, verse - a piece of poetry canto - a major division of a long poem verse line, verse - a line of metrical text versicle - a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody - (prosody) a system of versification rhyme, rime - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

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poem

noun verse, song, lyric, rhyme, sonnet, ode, verse composition

Translations

poem [ˈpəuɪm] n → poema m

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poem [ˈpəuɪm] n → poème m

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poem [ˈpəuɪm] n → Gedicht nt

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poem [ˈpəuɪm] n → poesia