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verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines | ||
poem | ||
literary composition, literary work imaginative or creative writing | ||
line of poetry, line of verse a single line of words in a poem | ||
abecedarius a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order | ||
alcaic, alcaic verse verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus | ||
ballad, lay a narrative poem of popular origin | ||
ballade a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy | ||
blank verse unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) | ||
elegy, lament a mournful poem; a lament for the dead | ||
epic, epic poem, heroic poem, epos a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | ||
free verse, vers libre unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern | ||
haiku an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines | ||
lyric poem, lyric a short poem of songlike quality | ||
rondel, rondeau a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas | ||
sonnet a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | ||
tanka a Tibetan religious painting on fabric | ||
terza rima a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. | ||
rhyme, verse correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) | ||
canto a major division of a long poem | ||
verse line, verse a piece of poetry | ||
versicle a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation | ||
stanza a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem | ||
poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody (prosody) a system of versification |