hush, stillness, still - (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night"

epos - a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme

literary genre, writing style, genre - a style of expressing yourself in writing

epic poetry, heroic poetry - poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero

dolor, dolour - (poetry) painful grief

lyric - write lyrics for (a song)

relyric - write new lyrics for (a song)

rhyme, rime - compose rhymes

tag - supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes

alliterate - use alliteration as a form of poetry

poetise, poetize, verse, versify - compose verses or put into verse; "He versified the ancient saga"

metrify - compose in poetic meter; "The bard metrified his poems very precisely"

spondaise, spondaize - make spondaic; "spondaize verses"

elegise, elegize - compose an elegy

sonnet - compose a sonnet

sonnet - praise in a sonnet

scan - conform to a metrical pattern

lyric - of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"

sweet, sweetly - in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other"

poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

clerihew - a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person; "`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew"

doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle - a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"

limerick - a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba

poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

iambic - a verse line consisting of iambs

Adonic, Adonic line - a verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee; used in laments by Adonis

line - text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza"

tetrameter - a verse line having four metrical feet

pentameter - a verse line having five metrical feet

hexameter - a verse line having six metrical feet

octameter - a verse line having eight metrical feet

octosyllable - a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines

decasyllable - a verse line having ten syllables

poesy, poetry, verse - literature in metrical form

indite, pen, write, compose - produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"

metrify - compose in poetic meter; "The bard metrified his poems very precisely"

spondaise, spondaize - make spondaic; "spondaize verses"

elegise, elegize - compose an elegy

sonnet - compose a sonnet

familiarise, familiarize, acquaint - make familiar or acquainted; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings"