as in verse
a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect
your assignment is to write two poems about springtime
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Recent Examples of poem
There is a poem about tulips that captures this perfectly.
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Nia Bowers, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
This week is a great time to start expressing yourself again: post that poem, send that flirty text, or give your inner child a play date.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 10 Aug. 2025
In 2016, Northern Irishwoman Dayna EM Craig posted a poem online.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Imagine going to a gig where The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards couldn’t make it, so Patti Smith stepped up to break the news, read you a poem, offered you your money back from her own pocket, and Frank Zappa filled in for him instead.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2025
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Nia Bowers, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
This week is a great time to start expressing yourself again: post that poem, send that flirty text, or give your inner child a play date.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 10 Aug. 2025
In 2016, Northern Irishwoman Dayna EM Craig posted a poem online.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Imagine going to a gig where The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards couldn’t make it, so Patti Smith stepped up to break the news, read you a poem, offered you your money back from her own pocket, and Frank Zappa filled in for him instead.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poem
Noun
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Where the strain required for a tenor to hit that upper register lends these verses an acerbic, explosive edge, a countertenor can approach the same lines with lamblike lyricism, as Mobley did.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
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The first verses unspooled over a simple I-V-IV progression, one of the most fundamental sets of chord changes in folk and pop music, each verse ending with a brief upward progression that climbed back to the root chord in time for the next set of lines.—
Peter Ames Carlin,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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Three guitars created interlocking ’80s-rock-style arpeggio support for the first verse in the final version, highlighting the pace while allowing the lyrics to dominate.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
15 Aug. 2025
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Arthur bankrolled the building with $3 million in profits from his wildly successful 1924 operetta Rose-Marie, whose book and lyrics were written by his son Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Liverpool’s forever No 20 was celebrated in song before, during and after the game.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2025
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If Cain does respond via song, this might end up being the most somber diss-track battle in history.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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This is the kind of show where deep, lasting soul-filling love is signified by the sharing of a single Shakespeare sonnet.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
14 July 2025
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The Emma Lazarus sonnet commissioned for the Statue of Liberty speaks to the White Sox.—
Phil Rogers,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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“Poem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poem. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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