English > verse form: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines. |
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| Synonym | poem |
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| Parts | canto | A major division of a long / long poem |
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| line of poetry, line of verse | A single line of words in a poem |
| poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody | (prosody) a system of versification |
| rhyme, rime | correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final / final sounds) |
| stanza | A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
| verse, verse line | A line of metrical text |
| Narrower | Alcaic, Alcaic verse | verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines |
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| abecedarius | A poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order |
| ballad, lay | A narrative poem of popular origin |
| ballade | A poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) |
| elegy, lament | A mournful poem |
| epic poem, heroic poem, epic, epos | A long / long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds |
| free verse, vers libre | unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern |
| haiku | An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short / short lines |
| lyric, lyric poem | A short / short poem of songlike quality |
| rondeau, rondel | A French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes |
| sonnet | A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| tanka | A form of Japanese poetry |
| terza rima | A verse form with a rhyme scheme |
| verse, rhyme | A piece of poetry |
| versicle | A short / short verse said / said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation |
| Broader | literary composition, literary work | imaginative or creative writing |
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| Spanish | oda, poema, poesía, verso |
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| Catalan | oda, poema, poesia, vers |
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