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

plural of poem

plural of poeme

Obsolete spelling of poem

plural of tone poem

plural of symphonic poem

plural of echo poem

plural of ur-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.