Synonyms for poetry
Definitions
- n. 1
Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
Related words
- Word family
- poet poetess poetic poetics poetise
- Phrases
- blackout poetry erasure poetry
Forms
- Plural
- poetries → verses, poems, songs, rhymes…
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Poetry is that form of literature that embodies beautiful thought, feeling, or action in melodious, rhythmical, and (usually) metrical language, in imaginative and artistic constructions. Poetry in a very wide sense may be anything that pleasingly addresses the imagination; as, the poetry of motion.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- poem This poem calls for great insight from the reader.
- verse She translated the verse into French and German.
- rhyme History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
By length
- 4 letters
- song1, poem2
- 5 letters
- verse1, rhyme1
- 6 letters
- poesie
- 7 letters
- poetics3
- 13 letters
- versification
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (poem2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- poésie
- Italiano
- poesia
- Español
- poesía
- Deutsch
- Dichtkunst
- Català
- poesia