Poem

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Poem \Po"em\, n. [L. po["e]ma, Gr. ?, fr. ? to make, to compose,
     to write, especially in verse: cf. F. po["e]me.]
     1. A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in
        certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and
        characterized by imagination and poetic diction; --
        contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or


        of Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A composition, not in verse, of which the language is
        highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the
        poems of Ossian.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  poem
       n : a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical
           lines [syn: {verse form}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  129 Moby Thesaurus words for "poem":
     English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
     Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic,
     article, autograph, balada, ballad, ballade, brainchild, bucolic,
     canso, chanson, clerihew, composition, computer printout, copy,
     dirge, dithyramb, ditty, document, draft, eclogue, edited version,
     elegy, engrossment, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee,
     epopoeia, epos, essay, eyeful, fair copy, fiction, final draft,
     finished version, first draft, flimsy, georgic, ghazel, haiku,
     holograph, idyll, jingle, letter, limerick, literae scriptae,
     literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration,
     lyric, madrigal, manuscript, matter, monody, narrative poem,
     nonfiction, nursery rhyme, ode, opus, original, palinode, paper,
     parchment, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle,
     penscript, picture, piece, piece of writing, play, poesy, poetry,
     printed matter, printout, production, prothalamium, reading matter,
     recension, rhapsody, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay,
     rune, satire, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft,
     sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso,
     tenzone, the written word, thing of beauty, threnody, transcript,
     transcription, triolet, troubadour poem, typescript, verse,
     verselet, versicle, version, villanelle, virelay, vision, work,
     writing
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  POEM
       Portable Object-orientated Entity Manager (SGML)