Literature in metrical form.

synonyms: poesy, poetry.

Roget 51: part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel.    piece [Fr.], lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop^†, slice, scale; lamina etc. 204; small part; morsel, particle etc. (smallness) 32; installment, dividend; share etc. (allotment) 786.    debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta^†; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part etc. 56; sarmentum^†.    compartment; department etc. (class) 75; county etc. (region) 181.    ... show more

Roget 597: 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 [Fr.], rondo, madrigal, canzonet^†, cento^†, monody [Slang], elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal^†, palinode.    dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.], ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music etc. 415; nursery rhymes.    [Bad poetry] 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 etc. (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c.; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis^†, antispast^†, blank verse, ictus.    elegiacs etc. adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.    poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist^†, scald, skald^†, troubadour, trouvere [Fr.]; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger [G.]; improvisatore^†; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist^†, rhymester; ballad monger, runer^†; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].    ... show more

Dutch: dichtwerk, vers, dichtkunst, muze, poëzie, verskunst
Polish: liryka

A piece of poetry.

synonym: rhyme.

Dutch: rijm, rijmpje, vers

A line of metrical text.

synonym: verse line.

Dutch: couplet, vers
Polish: wers, wiersz

Compose verses or put into verse.

synonyms: poetise, poetize, versify.

Dutch: berijmen, poëtiseren, dichten, rijmelen, rijmen

Familiarize through thorough study or experience.