poem
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
poem/ˈpəʊɪm/
▶noun a literary composition that is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery.
– origin C15: from Fr. poème or L. poema, from Gk poēma, early var. of poiēma ‘fiction, poem’, from poiein ‘create’.
'poem' also found in these Oxford entries:
acrostic
- alexandrine
- allegory
- apostrophe
- aubade
- ballad
- ballade
- bucolic
- Darby and Joan
- dark night of the soul
- dithyramb
- eclogue
- Edda
- elegy
- epic
- epigram
- epithalamium
- epode
- epyllion
- fit
- georgic
- ghazal
- Godwottery
- haiku
- idyll
- ithyphallic
- jabberwocky
- lament
- lay
- limerick
- lyric
- melic
- metric
- monody
- nursery rhyme
- ode
- odyssey
- palinode
- pamphlet
- party piece
- pastoral
- prelude
- prothalamium
- recite
- refrain
- rhapsody
- rhyme
- rhyme scheme
- rondeau
