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Word poem
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / ˈpəʊɪm / NAmE / ˈpoʊəm /
Example
  • he dedicated the poem to his mother.
  • his collected poems were published after the war.
  • in his autobiographical poem ‘the prelude’, wordsworth describes his boyhood in the lakes.
  • she read the poem aloud.
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poem

(noun)BrE / ˈpəʊɪm / NAmE / ˈpoʊəm /
  1. a piece of writing in which the words are chosen for their sound and the images they suggest, not just for their obvious meanings. The words are arranged in separate lines, usually with a repeated rhythm, and often the lines rhyme at the end.
  2. Extra Examples

    • He dedicated the poem to his mother.
    • His collected poems were published after the war.
    • In his autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’, Wordsworth describes his boyhood in the Lakes.
    • She read the poem aloud.
    • Wordsworth describes his boyhood in his autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’.
    • a poem about cultural differences

    Word Origin

    • late 15th cent.: from French poème or Latin poema, from Greek poēma, early variant of poiēma ‘fiction, poem’, from poiein ‘create’.
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