A literary piece written in verse. / A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.

plural of poeme

Obsolete spelling of poem

plural of poem

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".

A poem constructed by the surrealist technique of alternately writing a stanza and then "mirroring" it in some fashion to create the following stanza.

(music) A piece of orchestral music, in one movement, based on something non-musical, such as a story or a painting.

(music) A piece of symphonic music which, like a poem, has a narrative or descriptive theme.

A poem written in such a way that the lines form a pattern, usually related to the subject-matter of the poem.

A poem written in such a way that the lines form a pattern, usually related to the subject-matter of the poem.