All poem synonyms

noun poem

• couplet — A couplet is two lines of poetry which come next to each other, especially two lines that rhyme with each other and are the same length.
• epode — A form of lyric poem written in couplets, in which a long line is followed by a shorter one.
• limerick — a county in N Munster, in the SW Republic of Ireland. 037 sq. mi. (2686 sq. km).
• oldie — a popular song, joke, movie, etc., that was in vogue at a time in the past.
• half-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
• ditty — a poem intended to be sung.
• distich — a unit of two lines of verse, usually a self-contained statement; couplet.
• ode — a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
• quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
• half rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
• haiku — a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
• chorale — A chorale is a piece of music sung as part of a church service.
• alliteration — Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
• lines — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• elegy — A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
• metrics — Mathematics. a nonnegative real-valued function having properties analogous to those of the distance between points on a real line, as the distance between two points being independent of the order of the points, the distance between two points being zero if, and only if, the two points coincide, and the distance between two points being less than or equal to the sum of the distances from each point to an arbitrary third point.
• canticle — a nonmetrical hymn, derived from the Bible and used in the liturgy of certain Christian churches
• lyric — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
• doggerel — comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure. rude; crude; poor.
• belles-lettres — literary works, esp essays and poetry, valued for their aesthetic rather than their informative or moral content
• ballad — A ballad is a long song or poem which tells a story in simple language.
• writing — the act of a person or thing that writes.