poem

Poetry (from the Greek "", poiesis, a "making" or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns or lyrics.
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v. put, place; don; set, lay; pose; stick; seat

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.
  

Noun
1. a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
(synonym) verse form
(hypernym) literary composition, literary work
(hyponym) abecedarius
(part-meronym) line of poetry, line of verse