poetry
Roget category 597
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means
#597.
Poetry
noun
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.].
verb
poetize,
sing,
versify,
make verses,
rhyme,
scan.
adjective
poetic,
poetical —
lyric,
lyrical,
tuneful,
epic,
dithyrambic
etc.
n. —
metrical —
a catalectin† —
elegiac,
iambic,
trochaic,
anapestic† —
amoebaeic,
Melibean,
skaldic† —
Ionic,
Sapphic,
Alcaic†,
Pindaric.
phrase
a poem round and perfect as a star"
[Alex. Smith];
Dichtung und Wahrheit [G.] —
furor poeticus [Lat.] —
his virtues formed the magic of his song"
[Hayley];
I do but sing because I must"
[Tennyson];
I learnt life from the poets"
[de Stael];
licentia vatum [Lat.] —
mutum est pictura poema [Lat.] —
O for a muse of fire! "
[Henry V];
sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge"
[Sidney];
the true poem is the poet's mind"
[Emerson];
Volk der Dichter und Denker [G.] —
wisdom married to immortal verse"
[Wordsworth].
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