poetry

Roget-categorie 597

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#597. Poetry

zelfstandig naamwoord

poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon^†, Pierides, Pierian spring.
versification, rhyming, making verses — prosody, orthometry^†.
poem — epic, epic poem — epopee^†, epopoea, ode, epode^†, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic^†, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau [Fr.], rondo, madrigal, canzonet^†, cento^†, monody [Slang], elegy — amoebaeum, ghazal^†, palinode.
dramatic poetry, lyric poetry — opera — posy, anthology — disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.], ballad, lay — love song, drinking song, war song, sea song — lullaby — music etc. 415 — nursery rhymes.
[Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse^†, prose run mad — macaronics^† — macaronic verse^†, leonine verse — runes.
canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain — strophe, antistrophe^†.
verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo^†, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm — accentuation etc. (voice) 580 — dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c. — hexameter, pentameter — Alexandrine — anacrusis^†, antispast^†, blank verse, ictus.
elegiacs etc. adj. — elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.
poet, poet laureate — laureate — bard, lyrist^†, scald, skald^†, troubadour, trouvere [Fr.] — minstrel — minnesinger, meistersinger [G.] — improvisatore^† — versifier, sonneteer — rhymer, rhymist^†, rhymester — ballad monger, runer^† — poetaster — genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].

werkwoord

poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

poetic, poetical — lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic etc. n. — metrical — a catalectin^† — elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic^† — amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic^† — Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic^†, Pindaric.

uitdrukking

a poem round and perfect as a star" [Alex. Smith]; Dichtung und Wahrheit [G.] — furor poeticus [Lat.] — his virtues formed the magic of his song" [Hayley]; I do but sing because I must" [Tennyson]; I learnt life from the poets" [de Stael]; licentia vatum [Lat.] — mutum est pictura poema [Lat.] — O for a muse of fire! " [Henry V]; sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge" [Sidney]; the true poem is the poet's mind" [Emerson]; Volk der Dichter und Denker [G.] — wisdom married to immortal verse" [Wordsworth].

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