Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Poetry

Nouns
  • poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring. versification, rhyming, making verses
  • prosody, orthometry. poem
  • epic, epic poem
  • epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody [Slang], elegy
  • amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode. dramatic poetry, lyric poetry
  • opera
  • posy, anthology
  • ballad, lay
  • love song, drinking song, war song, sea song
  • lullaby
  • music etc. Music
  • nursery rhymes. [Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad
  • macaronics
  • macaronic verse, leonine verse
  • runes. canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain
  • strophe, antistrophe. verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm
  • accentuation etc. (voice) Voice
  • dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest etc.
  • hexameter, pentameter
  • Alexandrine
  • anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus. elegiacs etc. adj.
  • elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry. poet, poet laureate
  • laureate
  • bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour
  • minstrel
  • minnesinger
  • improvisatore
  • versifier, sonneteer
  • rhymer, rhymist, rhymester
  • ballad monger, runer
  • poetaster
Verbs
  • poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan.
Adjectives
  • poetic, poetical
  • lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic etc. n.
  • metrical
  • a catalectin
  • elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic
  • amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic
  • Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric.
Phrases
  • a poem round and perfect as a star" [Alex. Smith]
  • his virtues formed the magic of his song" [Hayley]
  • I learnt life from the poets" [de Stael]
  • O for a muse of fire! " [Henry V]
  • sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge" [Sidney]
  • the true poem is the poet's mind" [Emerson]
  • wisdom married to immortal verse" [Wordsworth].