Meaning of poem | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A literary piece written in verse.
2. poetry
3. Alternative spelling of poem.
   alt-of, alternative, archaic, rare
4. poem (a literary piece written in verse)
5. A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
6. a piece of writing arranged in lines which usually have a regular rhythm and often rhyme. gedig قَصيدَه стихотворение poema báseň das Gedicht digt ποίημαpoema luuletus شعر runo poèmeשיר कविता pjesma (za čitanje, ne za pjevanje) vers puisi ljóð poesia, poema 詩 시(詩) eilėraštis, poema dzejolis; poēma puisi gedichtdiktwiersz شعر poema poem стихотворение báseň pesem pesma dikt, poem บทกวี şiir 詩 поема نظم bài thơ 诗
   usually
7. A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.
8. A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.
9. A composition in verse rather than in prose: wrote both prose and poems.
10. A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.
11. (Poetry) a composition in verse, usually characterized by concentrated and heightened language in which words are chosen for their sound and suggestive power as well as for their sense, and using such techniques as metre, rhyme, and alliteration
12. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a literary composition that is not in verse but exhibits the intensity of imagination and language common to it: a prose poem.
13. anything resembling a poem in beauty, effect, etc
14. a composition in verse, esp. one characterized by a highly developed form and the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an imaginative interpretation of the subject.
15. something having qualities that are suggestive of or likened to those of poetry.
16. A poetic work or poetic works:poesy, poetry, rhyme, verse.

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Examples

“Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.”

“We cannot indeed recommend these Poëms as any standard of polite taste and elevated genius, nor as perfect patterns for imitation.”

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“Harte (Walter). — Essay on painting; in his poëms on several occasions. London. 1727. in-8°.”

“6. John Douglass, bishop of Centurio and vicar apostolic in the London district, 1794, in-4°. 7. The Battle of Bangor, satirical poëm (la bataille de Bangor, ou le triomphe de l’Église). 8. The first Eklog of Virgil translated into skottic vers.”

“895 Milton, J. Works, containing : paradise lost, a poëm, and paradise regained, Simson agonistes and poëms…”

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