All limerick synonyms

noun limerick

• poem — a composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
• poetry — the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
• writing — the act of a person or thing that writes.
• ode — a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
• lines — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• rune — a poem, song, or verse.
• haiku — a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
• quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
• cinquefoil — any plant of the N temperate rosaceous genus Potentilla, typically having five-lobed compound leaves
• pentangle — pentagram.
• pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
• quintuple — fivefold; consisting of five parts.
• lustrum — Also, luster; especially British, lustre. a period of five years.
• cinque — the number five in cards, dice, etc
• quinquennium — a period of five years.
• pentacle — pentagram.
• quintuplet — any group or combination of five, especially of the same kind.
• pentagon — a polygon having five angles and five sides.
• pentad — a period of five years.
• song — Ailing [ahy-ling] /ˈaɪˈlɪŋ/ (Show IPA), Soong, Ai-ling.
• rhyme — identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
• poesy — the work or the art of poetic composition.
• verse — (not in technical use) a stanza.
• lyric — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
• composition — When you talk about the composition of something, you are referring to the way in which its various parts are put together and arranged.
• ballad — A ballad is a long song or poem which tells a story in simple language.
• sonnet — Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
• beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
• creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
• rime — identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
• words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
• free verse — verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
• blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
• sestina — a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.
• villanelle — a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes.
• quincunx — an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
• quinquennial — of or lasting for five years.
• quintuplicate — a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten matter.
• epode — A form of lyric poem written in couplets, in which a long line is followed by a shorter one.
• epic — Of, relating to, or characteristic of an epic or epics.