All poetry synonyms

noun poetry

• writings — the third of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, variously arranged, but usually comprising the Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.
• limerick — a county in N Munster, in the SW Republic of Ireland. 037 sq. mi. (2686 sq. km).
• 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.
• half-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
• quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
• half rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
• expressive — Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
• language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
• alliteration — Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
• concerti — a composition for one or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment, now usually in symphonic form.
• cantata — A cantata is a fairly short musical work for singers and instruments.
• metrics — Mathematics. a nonnegative real-valued function having properties analogous to those of the distance between points on a real line, as the distance between two points being independent of the order of the points, the distance between two points being zero if, and only if, the two points coincide, and the distance between two points being less than or equal to the sum of the distances from each point to an arbitrary third point.
• meter — an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
• 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.
• mora — the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
• morae — the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
• doggerel — comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure. rude; crude; poor.
• belles-lettres — literary works, esp essays and poetry, valued for their aesthetic rather than their informative or moral content
• literature — writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
• concerto — A concerto is a piece of music written for one or more solo instruments and an orchestra.
• blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.