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Synonyms for poetry
noun expressive, rhythmic literary work

verse
paean
song
rhyme

poesy
stanza
rime
rune

versification
poems
doggerel
balladry

metrical composition
rhyming

Antonyms for poetry

prose

Concept Thesaurus for word poetry
2. Conventional means; written language
Synonyms – noun

poetry
Calliope
Pierides
making verses
epic
ode
eclogue
anacreontic
rondo
monody
palinode.
posy
ballad
war song
nursery rhymes.
macaronics
canto
line
strophe
assonance
foot
accentuation (voice)
anapest
anacrusis
elegiacs
poet
lyrist
trouvere
improvisatore
rhymist
poetaster

poetics
tuneful Nine
Pierian spring.
prosody
epic poem
epode
pastoral
sonnet
madrigal
elegy
dramatic poetry
anthology
lay
sea song
[Bad poetry] doggerel
macaronic verse
stanza
couplet
antistrophe.
crambo
numbers
dactyl
hexameter
antispast
elegiac verse
poet laureate
scald
minstrel
versifier
rhymester
genus irritabile vatum.

poesy
Parnassus
versification
orthometry.
epopee
idyl
bucolic
roundelay
canzonet
amoebeaum
lyric poetry
disjecta membra poetae
love song
lullaby
Hudibrastic verse
leonine verse
distich
triplet
verse
meter
strain
spondee
pentameter
blank verse
elegaic meter
laureate
skald
minnesinger
sonneteer
ballad monger

Muse
Helicon
rhyming
poem
epopoca
lyric
dithyramb
rondeau
cento
ghazal
opera
song
drinking song
music
prose run mad
runes.
verse
quatrain
rhyme
measure
rhythm
trochee
Alexandrine
ictus.
elegaic poetry.
bard
troubadour
meistersinger
rhymer
runer

Synonyms – verbs

poetize
rhyme

sing
scan.

versity

make verses

Synonyms – adjectives

poetic
tuneful
acatalectic
trochaic
skaldic
Pindaric.

poetical
epic
catalectic
anapestic
Ionic

lyric
dithyrambic
elegiac
amoebeeic
Sapphic

lyrical
metrical
iambic
Melibean
Alcaic

Synonyms – phrases
“a poem round and perfect as a star” [Alex. Smith); Dichtung und Wahrheit; furor poeticus; “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; mutum est pictura poema; “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;
Antonyms

prose

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Other adjectives related to poetry

Pierian
anapestic
epic
lyric
pindaric
sdrucciola

acatalectic
catalectic
iambic
lyrical
poetic
tragicomipastoral

acromonogrammatic
dithyrambic
idyllic
melic
poetical
trochaic

alcaic
elegiac
ionic
metrical
sapphic
tuneful

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