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POEM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
Synonyms:
poem; verse form
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("poem" is a kind of...):
literary composition; literary work (imaginative or creative writing)
Meronyms (parts of "poem"):
poetic rhythm; prosody; rhythmic pattern ((prosody) a system of versification)
stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)
rhyme; rime (correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds))
verse; verse line (a line of metrical text)
canto (a major division of a long poem)
line of poetry; line of verse (a single line of words in a poem)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poem"):
abecedarius (a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order)
Alcaic; Alcaic verse (verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus)
ballad; lay (a narrative poem of popular origin)
ballade (a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy)
blank verse (unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter))
elegy; lament (a mournful poem; a lament for the dead)
epic; epic poem; epos; heroic poem (a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds)
free verse; vers libre (unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern)
haiku (an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines)
lyric; lyric poem (a short poem of songlike quality)
rondeau; rondel (a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas)
sonnet (a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme)
tanka (a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables)
terza rima (a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.)
rhyme; verse (a piece of poetry)
versicle (a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation)
Context examples:
“I shall never be easy till I have seen some of these places. You will have my sketches, some time or other, to look at—or my tour to read—or my poem. I shall do something to expose myself.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The poem’s interpretation as a prophecy of the end of the pagan gods and their replacement by the one, singular god, suggests that memories of this terrible volcanic eruption were purposefully provoked to stimulate the Christianisation of Iceland.
(Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland’s conversion to Christianity, University of Cambridge)
That's no mere poem of the year.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Having dated the eruption, the researchers found that Iceland’s most celebrated medieval poem, which describes the end of the pagan gods and the coming of a new, singular god, describes the eruption and uses memories of it to stimulate the Christianisation of Iceland.
(Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland’s conversion to Christianity, University of Cambridge)
Stories and poems were springing into spontaneous creation in his brain, and he made notes of them against the future time when he would give them expression.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The poem, which can be dated as far back as 961, foretells the end of Iceland’s pagan gods and the coming of a new, singular god: in other words, the conversion of Iceland to Christianity, which was formalised around the turn of the eleventh century.
(Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland’s conversion to Christianity, University of Cambridge)
His poem won the first prize of ten dollars, his campaign song the second prize of five dollars, his essay on the principles of the Republican Party the first prize of twenty-five dollars.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
There are many of his poems that should never be read.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But the slaughter in the body of the poems was terrifying.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The editor promised Martin fifteen dollars for the poem, but, when it was published, seemed to forget about it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
