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poem
verbs
write a poem
• I’ve been writing short stories and poems for years.
compose a poem
formal (= write a poem )
• He composed a poem in his head.
learn a poem
(= learn it so that you can remember it without reading it )
• Hugh had learned the whole poem by heart as a boy.
memorize a poem
(= learn it )
• The children had to memorize a poem and recite it in front of the whole class.
recite a poem
(= say it without reading it )
• The little girl was standing up, reciting a poem.
phrases
a book/volume/collection of poems
• She has a new collection of poems coming out soon.
an anthology of poems
(= a book of poems by different people )
• She gave me an anthology of poems for children.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + poem
a love poem
• Shakespeare's beautiful love poems
a lyric/narrative/epic etc poem
(= a poem in a particular style )
• the epic Greek poem, The Odyssey
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rhymes:
Poems are prized by many people.
Simple Definitions
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a poem
poem
a piece of writing that expresses emotions, experiences, and ideas, especially in short lines using words that rhyme:
• ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ is the first line of a famous poem by WIlliam Wordsworth.
sonnet
a poem with 14 lines which rhyme with each other in a fixed pattern:
• Shakespeare’s sonnets
haiku
a type of Japanese poem with three lines consisting of five, seven, and five syllables:
• a haiku by Matsuo Basho about a frog jumping into a pond
limerick
a short humorous poem that has five lines which rhyme:
• a limerick by Edward Lear, which began ‘There was a young lady of Norway, Who casually sat in a doorway’.
rhyme
a short poem or song, especially for children, using words that rhyme:
• a collection of traditional rhymes with illustrations • The children were reciting a rhyme. • a nursery rhyme (= a short traditional poem or song for children )
poems
poetry
poems in general, or the art of writing them:
• He reads a lot of poetry. • She wrote poetry and children’s stories. • a poetry book
verse
words arranged in the form of poetry:
• a book of comic verse
anthology
a set of poems by different people collected together in one book:
• an anthology of Caribbean poetry
parts of a poem
verse
a group of words or sentences that form one part of a poem:
• The poem has three verses. • the final verse
stanza
a group of lines in a repeated pattern, which form part of a poem:
• the opening stanza of Keats’ poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
Longman-Thesaurus
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noun ADJ. fine, good, great, magnificent, remarkable | collected, selected His collected poems were published after the war. | anonymous | autobiographical | sad | dramatic, epic, lyric, heroic, narrative | prose | love | war | humorous, nonsense, satirical QUANT. anthology, collection VERB + POEM compose, write | read She read the poem aloud. | recite | learn by heart | dedicate He dedicated the poem to his mother. POEM + VERB be addressed to sb PREP. in a/the ~ In his autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’, Wordsworth describes his boyhood in the Lakes. | ~ about a poem about cultural differences
Oxford Collocations Dictionary