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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 versesprosody, orthometry.
poemepic, epic poemepopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau [Fr.], rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody [Slang], elegyamoebaeum, ghazal, palinode.
dramatic poetry, lyric poetryoperaposy, anthologydisjecta membra poetae song [Lat.], ballad, laylove song, drinking song, war song, sea songlullabymusic etc. 415nursery rhymes.
[Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run madmacaronicsmacaronic verse, leonine verserunes.
canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrainstrophe, antistrophe.
verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythmaccentuation etc. (voice) 580dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c. — hexameter, pentameterAlexandrineanacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus.
elegiacs etc. adj. — elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.
poet, poet laureatelaureatebard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere [Fr.]minstrelminnesinger, meistersinger [G.]improvisatoreversifier, sonneteerrhymer, rhymist, rhymesterballad monger, runerpoetastergenus irritabile vatum [Lat.].

verb

poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan.

adjective

poetic, poeticallyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic etc. n. — metrical a catalectinelegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapesticamoebaeic, Melibean, skaldicIonic, 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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