POEM

poem. Poem, n. a work or composition written in verse

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Po″em (?), n. [[L. poëma, Gr. �, fr. � to make, to compose, to write, especially in verse: cf. F. poëme.]] 1. 1. A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; — contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
2. 2. A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.