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a visual poem in the shape of an altar or a cross
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(poetry) Palindromic; reading the same forwards or backwards.
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A kind of poem whose meaning is expressed more by the typography and layout than by the words themselves.
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A poem constructed by the surrealist technique of alternately writing a stanza and then "mirroring" it in some fashion to create the following stanza.
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Poetry created by taking words or phrases from other sources and making changes in spacing or line breaks, or adding or deleting text to impart new meaning.
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A work in a Japanese prosimetric style combining prose and haiku.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of haiku.
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(poetry) Synonym of haiku (“type of Japanese poem”)
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(poetry) An individual who recites impromptu verse, as from a song or poem.
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A section of verse concerning a single theme; tirade.
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A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
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(usually in the plural) The words of a song or other vocal music.
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Poetry, often terse and surreal, created by assembling magnetic pieces bearing words or word fragments.
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A work of metapoetry; a poem about poetry.
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(literature, poetry) Pertaining to the characteristics and patterns of lines or phrases, as opposed to the structure of the entire work.
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An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge.
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Poetry written for public performance rather than private reading.
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In Japanese waka poetry, a poetic device where a certain introductory phrase is commonly used to allude to something else.
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(chiefly of abjad script) A word written with matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).
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A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
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(idiomatic) A person or thing that moves in a particularly fluid, graceful way.
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(poetry) A genre of concrete poems assembled from images rather than words.
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The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred songs.
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A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
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(liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
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(transitive, intransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
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Alternative form of rhymist [One who rhymes; an inferior poet.]
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(obsolete) To write poor poetry.
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(formal) One who writes songs.
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(usually in the plural) Synonym of lyric (“the words of a song or other vocal music”)
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Of or relating to a sonnet.
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An artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values.
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The school of spasmodic poetry.
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(poetry) The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.
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An oral art form, usually consisting of performance poetry, although sometimes overlapping with storytelling or rap.
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(music) A piece of symphonic music which, like a poem, has a narrative or descriptive theme.
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Abbreviation of varia lectio. [(textual criticism and interpretation) Any one of the interpretations or readings of a given passage in a text which differ from copy to copy, from edition to edition, from manuscript to manuscript, or from translation to translation.]
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Abbreviation of version. [A specific form or variation of something.]
adj
(BDSM, gay slang) Short for versatile. [Capable of doing many things competently.]
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A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
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(biblical) The process by which the books of the Bible were divided into verses; a particular way of dividing biblical books into verses
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(obsolete) A particular skill in writing.
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(rare) A writer of villanelles.
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(art) Artistic forms, such as concrete poems and visual poems, that use words as visual elements rather than merely to convey verbal meaning.
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A visually evocative poem or other piece of writing.
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