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.

a visual poem in the shape of an altar or a cross

A visual poem in the shape of an object.

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.