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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 poems
Her stories, poems, and essays have been anthologized in The Best American Essays, The Breakbeat Poets Vol.
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Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
All three poems incorporate a variety of punctuation, while their capitalization, enjambment, and line breaks generally add up to more than prose without feeling incoherent.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
Your identity as a Black man is present in a lot of your poems.
—Megan Sauer, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
Same-sex desire also appears throughout Virgil’s pastoral poems, the Eclogues.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
The prompts read like tiny, abstract poems.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
New and experienced poets can gather to read and share their poems.
—La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
The variants, the visuals, the exclusive photos and poems.
—Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
Online in 2016 about how Wade treats her during the February holiday, adding that his poems are among the best gifts she's received.
—Lydia Price, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
All three poems incorporate a variety of punctuation, while their capitalization, enjambment, and line breaks generally add up to more than prose without feeling incoherent.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
Your identity as a Black man is present in a lot of your poems.
—Megan Sauer, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
Same-sex desire also appears throughout Virgil’s pastoral poems, the Eclogues.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
The prompts read like tiny, abstract poems.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
New and experienced poets can gather to read and share their poems.
—La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
The variants, the visuals, the exclusive photos and poems.
—Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
Online in 2016 about how Wade treats her during the February holiday, adding that his poems are among the best gifts she's received.
—Lydia Price, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poems
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The album gets off to a blithe enough start… for a couple of verses.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
26 Oct. 2025
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Have another look at the opening verses of the Aeneid (especially Book I, line 28).—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Hansen Yang – hounded by over a dozen Chinese media members there to chronicle his every move – launched jumpers while Mandarin pop songs blared through the arena.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
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Instead of the traditional alternation of sung-text recitative and arias (songs), verismo operas are more seamless in how songs are interwoven with the story.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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However, this is not the first time Urban has altered lyrics on stage for his duet partner.—
Sarah Sotoodeh,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Someone keeps calling her on the landline and leaving voice messages and texting her mobile phone—bits of song lyrics, compliments, and emoticons.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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The captive—and Cervantes—found something moving in those sonnets, something that gave them the will to hope.—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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