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,
rondeau [Fr.], rondo, madrigal, canzonet†, cento†, monody [Slang],
elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal†, palinode.
dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta
membra poetae song [Lat.], ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war
song, sea song; lullaby; music &c 415; 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 &c (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee,
anapest &c; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis†, antispast†,
blank verse, ictus.
elegiacs &c adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.
poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist†, scald, skald†,
troubadour, trouvere [Fr.]; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger [G.];
improvisatore†; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist†, rhymester;
ballad monger, runer†; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].
V. poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan.
Adj. poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic &c
n.; metrical; a catalectin†; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic†;
amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic†; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic†, Pindaric.
Phr. a poem round and perfect as a star [Alex.
Smith]; Dichtung und Wahrheit [G.]; furor poeticus [Lat.]; his
virtues formed the magic of his song [Hayley]; I do but sing because I
must [Tennyson]; I learnt life from the poets [de Stael]; licentia
vatum [Lat.]; mutum est pictura poema [Lat.]; O for a muse of fire!
[Henry V]; sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge [Sidney]; the true
poem is the poet's mind [Emerson]; Volk der Dichter und Denker [G.];
wisdom married to immortal verse [Wordsworth].