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One who writes couplets.
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(by extension) Any of a coterie of poets writing on one subject.
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A writer of dactylic verse.
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(archaic) Alternative spelling of eclogue [A pastoral poem, often in the form of a shepherd's monologue or a dialogue between shepherds.]
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One who composes elegies.
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A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse
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A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
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Synonym of Shakespearean sonnet
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Synonym of Shakespearean sonnet
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An elegy; an ode to someone deceased.
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(poetry) A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one.
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(literary) A brief narrative poem with a romantic or mythological theme.
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(Ancient Greek drama) The final chorus; the catastrophe.
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Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
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(poetry) A person who writes haiku; a haiku poet.
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Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
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A poet working in the Instapoetry genre.
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(poetry) A metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.
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A Lakist; one of the Lake Poets.
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Someone who writes limericks.
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(obsolete) A composer of lyric poetry.
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(poetry) Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style
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(poetry) The narrator within a poem.
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A person who writes the lyrics of a song.
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The four poets Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden, and Cecil Day-Lewis, who shared certain left-wing views and produced important works in the 1930s.
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(obsolete) A composer of verses.
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One who metrifies; a writer of verses.
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A mania for writing poetry, especially doggerel.
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An epic poem or similar work which seeks or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation.
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Of or relating to an ode or odes.
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A writer of an ode or odes.
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An ode or other poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem; (loosely) a recantation.
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(obsolete) A bad poet; a poetaster.
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A poem or other literary work in the style of Giovanni Pascoli
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An ode of an irregular form erroneously derived from Pindar, popular in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.
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Obsolete spelling of poem [A literary piece written in verse.]
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(now literary) Alternative form of poesy [A poem.]
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(archaic) The class of literature comprising poems.
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A person who writes poems.
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(Britain, historical) Formerly, an officer of the king's household, whose business was to compose an ode annually for the king's birthday, and other suitable occasions; now, a poet officially distinguished by such honorary title, the office being a sinecure.
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Writing inferior poetry.
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The writing of inferior poetry.
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The works of a poetaster; inferior poetry.
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Of or relating to a poet
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A poet's literary production.
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(archaic) A verse of poetry, especially a motto or an inscription on a ring.
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(rare or archaic) Alternative spelling of poem [A literary piece written in verse.]
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(rare or archaic) Alternative spelling of poet [A person who writes poems.]
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Archaic spelling of poetry. [Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.]
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(rare or archaic) Alternative spelling of poetry [Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.]
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Alternative form of prose poem [(literature) A literary text written in the manner of prose—without the fixed lines, rhyme, and meter often characteristic of poetry—but nonetheless clearly possessing some of the distinctive attributes of poetry, such as lyrical language, evocation of feeling, vivid imagery, metaphor, and linguistic devices like assonance or alliteration.]
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A writer of psalms; a psalmist.
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A writer of psalms, such as the biblical King David.
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(literature, historical, chiefly in the plural) Any of a group of British poets of the 1930s who wrote about new technological developments.
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The interpreter of a poem.
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(Ancient Greece, poetry, historical) An epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation.
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A good rhymer, a poet or musician skilled at rhymes.
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One who makes, composes, or recites rhymes or simple poems.
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One who rhymes; an inferior poet.
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Poetry composed in a manner reminiscent of Rainer Maria Rilke, or else dealing with themes similar to those of Rilke's poetry.
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A poem or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation; magical or esoteric poetry.
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A divine or sacred poet, or a poet regarded as such.
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In poetry slams, a poet who goes first and gets scored by the judges, but is not actually in the competition.
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Synonym of Spenserian sonnet
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(uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry.
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Composed of Shakespearean sonnets.
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(transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.
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(sometimes derogatory) A writer of sonnets or small poems.
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(archaic) A female writer of sonnets.
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Relating to or characteristic of a sonnet.
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Alternative form of sonnettomania [Great enthusiasm for sonnets]
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Great enthusiasm for sonnets
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An enthusiast of sonnets
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In the form of a sonnet.
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a writer of spasmodic poetry.
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One of a group of poets who imitated Spenser.
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writing in a Spenserian style
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A word or phrase due to Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599), English poet.
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Pertaining or similar to a threnody.
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A poem that is believed to be a precursor or prototype to a more modern class of poetry; usually a hypothetical 'mother poem' of a genre. Jerome McGann described the ur-poem as a work "whose existence is the Idea that can be abstracted out of all concrete and written texts which have ever existed or which ever will exist".
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A poet or bard who is divinely inspired.
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(poetry) A type of poetry pertaining to upper-class manners.
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One who composes verses; a poet.
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An inferior poet; a versemonger.
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The art of writing poetry.
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The writing of inferior poetry.
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The writing of verses or of commonplace poetry.
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Someone who writes verse; a poet.
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1697, John Dryden, Translation of Virgil's Georgics:
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