Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual FacultiesDivision (II) Communication of Ideas
Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas
3. Written Language
597. Poetry.
POEM; epic, epic poem; epopee or epopœia, epos, ode, epode, idyl or idyll, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, georgic, dithyramb or dithyrambus, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondel, roundel, rondelet; triolet, sestina, virelay, ballade, cento, ghazal or ghazel, madrigal, monody, elegy; amœbæum, palinode.
dramatic -, didactic -, narrative -, lyric -, satirical- poetry; satire, opera.
ANTHOLOGY, posy [archaic], garland, miscellany, disjecta membra poetœ [L.].
SONG, ballad, lay; love -, drinking -, war -, sea- song; lullaby, aubade [F.]; music [See Music]; nursery rhymes.
[BAD POETRY] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse; macaronics, macaronic verse; “not poetry, but prose run mad” [Pope].
VERSIFICATION, riming or rhyming, making verses; prosody; scansion, scanning, orthometry [rare].
canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe; refrain, chorus, burden; octave, sextet.
VERSE, rime or rhyme, assonance, crambo [contemptuous], meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; ictus, beat, accent; accentuation (voice) [See Voice]; iambus, iambic, iamb; dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c.; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, Leonine verse, runes, alliteration; bout-rimé [F.].
elegiacs &c. adj.; elegiac &c. adj. -verse, – meter or metre, – poetry.
POET, minor poet; genius, maker [obs.], creator; poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist, scald or skald, scop [hist.], idylist or idyllist, sonneteer, rhapsodist, epic [obs.], epic poet, dithyrambic, satirist, troubadour, trouvère; minstrel; minnesinger, Meistersinger; jongleur, improvisator or improvvisatore [It.] or improvisatore, versifier, rimer or rhymer, rimester or rhymester; ballad monger, runer; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum [L.].
produce -lame verses, – limping meters, – halting rime.
- 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 Staël
- 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.
- Wisdom married to immortal verse.—Wordsworth
- Unlock my heart with a sonnet-key.—Browning