poem
[noun]
Synonyms: verse, lyric, ode, rhyme, song, sonnet

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English Thesaurus: poem, sonnet, haiku, limerick, rhyme, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

po‧em S3 W3 /ˈpəʊəm, ˈpəʊɪm $ ˈpoʊ-/ noun [countable]
[Word Family: noun: poem, poet, poetry; adverb: poetically; adjective: poetic]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: poème, from Latin, from Greek poiema, from poiein 'to make, create']
a piece of writing that expresses emotions, experiences, and ideas, especially in short lines using words that rhyme (=end with the same sound)
poem about
I decided to write a poem about how I felt.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

poem
noun
ADJ. fine, good, great, magnificent, remarkable | collected, selected His collected poems were published after the war.
anonymous | autobiographical | sad | dramatic, epic, lyric, heroic, narrative | prose | love | war | humorous, nonsense, satirical
QUANT. anthology, collection
VERB + POEM compose, write | read She read the poem aloud.
recite | learn by heart | dedicate He dedicated the poem to his mother.
POEM + VERB be addressed to sb
PREP. in a/the ~ In his autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’, Wordsworth describes his boyhood in the Lakes.
~ about a poem about cultural differences

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

poem

write a poem
I’ve been writing short stories and poems for years.
compose a poem formal (=write a poem)
He composed a poem in his head.
learn a poem (=learn it so that you can remember it without reading it)
Hugh had learned the whole poem by heart as a boy.
memorize a poem (=learn it )
The children had to memorize a poem and recite it in front of the whole class.
recite a poem (=say it without reading it)
The little girl was standing up, reciting a poem.
a book/volume/collection of poems
She has a new collection of poems coming out soon.
an anthology of poems (=a book of poems by different people)
She gave me an anthology of poems for children.
a love poem
Shakespeare's beautiful love poems
a lyric/narrative/epic etc poem (=a poem in a particular style)
the epic Greek poem, The Odyssey

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

poem a piece of writing that expresses emotions, experiences, and ideas, especially in short lines using words that rhyme:
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ is the first line of a famous poem by WIlliam Wordsworth.
sonnet a poem with 14 lines which rhyme with each other in a fixed pattern:
Shakespeare’s sonnets
haiku a type of Japanese poem with three lines consisting of five, seven, and five syllables:
a haiku by Matsuo Basho about a frog jumping into a pond
limerick a short humorous poem that has five lines which rhyme:
a limerick by Edward Lear, which began ‘There was a young lady of Norway, Who casually sat in a doorway’.
rhyme a short poem or song, especially for children, using words that rhyme:
a collection of traditional rhymes with illustrations
The children were reciting a rhyme.
a nursery rhyme (=a short traditional poem or song for children)
poetry poems in general, or the art of writing them:
He reads a lot of poetry.
She wrote poetry and children’s stories.
a poetry book
verse words arranged in the form of poetry:
a book of comic verse
anthology a set of poems by different people collected together in one book:
an anthology of Caribbean poetry
stanza a group of lines in a repeated pattern, which form part of a poem:
the opening stanza of Keats’ poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’

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