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