Poem

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: po=em

CIDE DICTIONARY

Poem, n. [L. poëma, Gr. , fr. to make, to compose, to write, especially in verse: cf. F. poëme.].

•  A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Poem, n.
1 a metrical composition, usu. concerned with feeling or imaginative description.
2 an elevated composition in verse or prose.
3 something with poetic qualities (a poem in stone).

Etymology

F po{egrave}me or L poema f. Gk poema = poiema f. poieo make

THESAURUS

Poem

English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, article, autograph, balada, ballad, ballade, brainchild, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, composition, computer printout, copy, dirge, dithyramb, ditty, document, draft, eclogue, edited version, elegy, engrossment, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, essay, eyeful, fair copy, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, georgic, ghazel, haiku, holograph, idyll, jingle, letter, limerick, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, lyric, madrigal, manuscript, matter, monody, narrative poem, nonfiction, nursery rhyme, ode, opus, original, palinode, paper, parchment, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, penscript, picture, piece, piece of writing, play, poesy, poetry, printed matter, printout, production, prothalamium, reading matter, recension, rhapsody, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rune, satire, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, the written word, thing of beauty, threnody, transcript, transcription, triolet, troubadour poem, typescript, verse, verselet, versicle, version, villanelle, virelay, vision, work, writing

ROGET THESAURUS

Poem

Poetry

N poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest, hexameter, pentameter, Alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum, poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic, Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric, a poem round and perfect as a star, Dichtung und Wahrheit, furor poeticus, his virtues formed the magic of his song, I do but sing because I must, I learnt life from the poets, licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, O for a muse of fire!, sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge, the true poem is the poet's mind, Volk der Dichter und Denker, wisdom married to immortal verse.